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A08486	A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaracion of Martin Luthers faythe before the Emperoure Charles the fyft, and the illustre estates of the empyre of Germanye, with an oration of hys death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melancthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.; Historia de vita et actis Martini Lutheri. English	Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Bennet, Henry, fl. 1561, compiler and trans.; Capito, Wolfgang, 1478-1541. De vita Oecolampadii. aut; Grynäus, Simon, 1493-1541. De J. Oecolampadii obitu. aut; Mykonius, Oswald, 1488-1552. De H. Zuinglii vita et obitu. aut	1561 (1561)	STC 1881; ESTC S120757	69,569	198

paines encreased Doctor Ionas lying in his chamber Luther awakened praied hym to ryse and call vp Ambrose hys Childerns Schoolemaister to make fyre in an other Chāber In that which beyng newly entred Albert Earle of Mansfeld wyth hys wyfe and dyuers other whose names in these letters for hast were not expressed at that in stant came into hys Chamber Finally feelyg hys fatal houre to approch before 1● of the clock in the morning the. 18. of Februarye he commended him to God wyth this deuout praier My heauenly father eternal mercyful God thou hast manyfested vnto me thy deare Sonne our Lord Iesus Christe I haue taught hym I haue knowen hym I loue hym as my life my health and my redempcion whō the wycked persecuted maligned and wyth iniury affected Draw my soule to thee After thys he sayde thys that ensueth thryse I commende my Spirite into thy handes thou hast redemed me God of truth God so loued the worlde that he gaue his ouelye Sonne that all those that beleue in hym shoulde haue lyfe euerlastyng Iohn 3. Hauyng repeated often tymes hys prayers he was called to God to the eternal Schole and perpetual ioyes in the● which he enioyeth the societye of the father the Sonne and the holy Ghost al the Prophets Apostles He●as the conductor and Chariot of Israel is dead who hath gouerned the Churche in thys lasle age of the worlde for the doctrine of remission of synnes and of the fayth of God hath not beene compreheneed by bumayne wysedome but God hath manifested the same by thys holye man whom we haue sene raysed of God Let vs loue the memory of thys mā and the doctrine that he hath taught Let vs learne to be morest meeke Let vs consider the wretched calamities and marueilous chaunges y● shal folow this myshay doleful chaunce I beseche thee O Sonne of God crucified for vs resuscitate Emanuel gouerne conserue defend thy Churche ⸫ ¶ Philip Melancthons Oracion made and recited for the Funeralles of the Reuerens man Marrin● Luther at Vitteberge ⸫ AL best in thys common sorrow my voyce shal be troubled wyth dolour teares yet I must saye somewhat in thys frequent assembly not as the Paganes solemne custome was to sing the Encomye of the dead but rather to admonish this companye of the marueilous gouernment perils of the Church that we may consider for what causes we ought to be careful pensiue what thinges we haue special neede of to what examples we ought to direct our lyfe For although prophane men beholding this horrible confusion in thys mortall estate supposing althinges are transported by aduenture and gouerned by Fortune yet we confirmed wyth many euident testimonies of God let vs separate the Church from the vngodly multitude let vs perswade our selues the same hath bene preserued and ruled by diuine prouidence ●et vs perpen● what is the policye of the same Let vs acknowledge the true gouernours and endeuour to frame our cou●●e conformable to theirs Let vs ●●ec● Guides coue●●ent Instructors whom we maye godly imitate haue in reuerence It shal be most expedient for so meditate and speake of these waighty graue matters as of ten when mencion shall be made of the Reuerend man Martine Luther our dearely beloued Maister Whom we must tenderly loue commende synce we know that he was diuinely reysed to be a Minister of the Gospel although many prophane mē suche as contempned the Gospel hated him deadlye We ought also to collect testemonies whereby we may demonstrate his doctrine contayned no sedicious opinions iniuriously and wyth temerarious affection sowen as the Epicurean sect imagineth but that by hys doctrine the wil and faythful worshipping of God hys holy scriptures ar expressed the word of God y● is the glad tidyngs of Iesus Christ sincerely announced Al be it in these Dracions accustomably made in this place we wer wōt orderly to depaint the particular ornamentes of them whō we praysed yet I omit●yng that member of Oration entend to treate only of this principal article Ecclesiastical function For the wise godly wyll deliberate determine in them selues resoluteli this If Luther hath manyfested the necessarye doctryne of saluacion in y● Church great thankes are to be geuen to God who hath raised him we must commend hys industry faith constancy many other hys celestiall vertues and endeuour the memory of thys man may be embraced and reuerenced of euery man Let thys then be the Proeme of my Oration The Sonne of God as Paule sayth sitteth at the right hand of the euerlasting father ministreth good things to men that is the voice of the Gospel the holy ghost and to distribute these giftes he rayseth Prophets Apostles Doctors Pastors ● taketh these out of our congregacion such as do learne who professe heare embrace the Prophetes Apostles writings And calleth not only those to this warfare which haue ordinari power but also he denounceth warre against them often times by Doctors chosen of an other estate It is moste comfortable a pleasaūt spectacle to consider the Churche of all ages to remember the bountye of God who from time to time hat sent successiuely godly Doctors to th end that when the first were in battayl consumed other might supply theyr rankes to atchieue that the former begonne The cōtinual order of y● first fathers Adam Seth Enoch Mathusalē Noe Sem is notorious This Sem liuing inhabiting the country nigh to Sodome when the people had forgotten the doctrine of Noe euery wher honored Idols Abraham was raysed to be Sems compagniō to assist hym to performe this great worke After succeded Isac Iacob Ioseph y● which Ioseph in y● vniuersal territori of Egipt which thē excelled all other kingdōs in y● world illumined the light of doctrine Then folowed Moses Iosue Samuel Dauid Elias Elizeus whose Auditor was Esay After Esay cam Ieremy after Ieremye Daniel after Daniel Zachary immediatly succeded Esoras and Omas after Onias the Machabees Then after ensued Simeon Zachary Iohn Baptist Iesus Christ the Apostles It is conuenient to consider thys continual sequele for that it is an euidēt testimonye of Gods presence in the Church After the Apostles followed an other flocke the whych albeit weaker yet adorned wyth the testimonyes of God as Policarpe Ireneus Gregory Neocesariē Basile Austen Prosper Marimus Hugo Bernard Tau lerus and many other in diuers places All be it thys last age was more grosse and stuffed wyth ordures yet God preserued alwayes somme remaintes And it is cleare the Gospell hath receiued much light by the preachyng of Luther Then muste we collocate hym among this select blisful Troupe of godly and excellent Mirrours whom God hath sent to gather restore hys Church that we may vnderstand this was the principal flower of humaine kin●● ▪ Solon Themistocles Scipio Augustus

in him He exhorted to peace disswaded war He medled not priuate care with ecclesiastical causes ther by to enrich himself or aduaunce hys friendes I iudge this to be so great wysdome vertue that by humayne diligence it cannot onely be procured but it behoueth high vehement subtil mindes as it appeareth Luthers was to be brydeled diuinely What shal I saye of other his vertues I often tymes came vnwares vpon hym when he wyth teares berayning hys chekes prayed for the vniuersal Church He prescribed certayn houres euery day to recite some Psalmes and in pronouncing them he expressed his affection wyth mourning teares He rebuked euer those that through negligence or other domestical busines sayde they serued God sufficiently in makyng a secret zelous prayer declaring to them that we haue fourmes set foorth by diuine counsell to th end that in reading we may awaken our myndes and wyth voyce testify what God we call vpon And when occasion was offered to enter in consultacion about imminent daungerous we alwaies obserued hys marueilous constancy of courage neyther would he lurke appalled neyther represent anye face ef feare wyth the terrour therof He leaned alwayes to the Lord as to hys holye ancre and neuer waued in anye poynt of hys fayth Further he was so ingenious that alone he considered what was necessary to be done in doubtful cases Neither was he as many suppose negligent in the consideracion of the publicke weale neyther ignoraunt of the myndes and inclinaciōs of other but he wel vnderstode the state of the common weale no man better perceyued most prudently the natural dispositions and wylles of them with whō he was cōuersant And albeit he was of a ioly politicke head yet he moste gredely red the Ecclesiasticall Wryters old and new all the histories the examples whereof he conuerted wyth a syngular dexterity to the profite of mans lyfe and present affaires Of hys eloquenc●e we haue euerlasting testimonies wherein certaynly he was equiualent to any that excelled in arte Oratory Then wyth good cause we may lament the lacke of hym who in wysedome and lyuelynes of spirite was so excellent so garnished with doctrine ▪ so exercise ▪ wyth vie so adorned with many those heroyical vertues so elected of God for the restauration of the Curch and finally with so paternal affection louyng and embracing vs we are lyke Orphelius depriued of a faythful and famous father And albeit necessarelye we must obey diuine order yet let vs endeuour the memory of hys benefites vertues may remayne immortal wyth vs. And let vs reioyce that presently he is in the blessed swete company of God his welbeloued Sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ the Prophetes and Apostles whose so 〈…〉 etye throughe the fayth he had in the sonne of God he hath dayly desyred and attended Whereas now he heareth hys labours onely approued by the iudgement of God and the testimonye of all the heauenlye Church whyche he susteyned for the propagation of the Gospell but also taken out of thys mortal body as out of a pryson and entred into a schoole adourned wyth more excellent doctrine he beholdeth the essence of god the two natures cōioyned in the sonne and al the couns●● of h 〈…〉 creation and redemption of the church The which diuine m●ste●●es ●●r●ked and wyth compendious oracles proponed he cōsidered here only by fayth out nowe more ●u●●●nt y veholdyng them he reioyceth feruently enflamed wyth the loue of God he rendreth thankes for this so great singular benefyt There he learneth wherefore the sonne of God is called the woord and Image of the eternal Father how the holy ghost is the band of mutuall loue not onelye betwyxt the eternall Father and the Sonne but also betwyxt them and the Church For he had learned the ru●●mentes and principles of thys doctrine in thys mortal lyfe and mencioned oftentimes these celestiall matters the difference betwyrt true and false inuocation the true knowledge of God beholdyng the diuine manifestacions the discernynge of the true God from foreged and inuented Gods these matters he disputed very wisely graue●● Many in thys Auditory haue heard hym at certayn times expressing this sentence Ye shal see the heauens opened and the Aungels of God ascendyng and descending vpon the sonne of man In the exposicion of thys he exhorted hys Auditours to plant in theyr hartes thys syngular consolacion the whyche affirmeth that the heauen is opened that is to say way made open for vs to passe to God the barre of Gods wrathe remoued from suche as haue recourse to the Sonne that God is familiarlye conuersaunt wyth vs now and that he receyueth gouerneth and conserueth such as inuocate hym He admonished that that decree of God which the Atheistes exclame to be fabulous ought to resyst al those humaine doubtes dreades whyche keepe backe the wanderyng myndes that they dare not innocate God and repose in hym Further he sayd that the Aungels ascending and descending in the body of Iesus Christ wer the Ministers of the Gospel Who first by Christ their Guide ascended to God receiued of hym the lyght of the Gospell and the goly Ghost Then after they descended that is to say thei had the charge to professe and enstruct among men He added thys interpretacion that the very heauenly spirites which we commonly cal Angels beholding the sonne are instructed r●●oy●e in this merueylous con●unction of twoo natures for that they war vnder the Lord for the defence of the Churche they be also gouerned by hys hand He presently beholdeth these so excellent thynges and as before he ascended and descended among the Ministers of the Gospell by the conduction of Iesus Christe so nowe he seeth the Aungels sent by hym hath equal fruicion wyth them of the contemplacion consideracion of the diuine wysdome and marueylous workes of God We remember wel what incredible pleasure he conceiued in recityng the policies of the Prophetes theyr counsels daungers and deliueraunces and how learnedlye he conferred al tymes of the Church that he wel declared wyth what burnyng desyre he longed to be in the societye of these excellent personages He embraceth these now reioyceth to haue mutual conference in lyuelye voyce These salute their louyng companiō newly repayred to them and ioyntly yeld thankes to God that he assembleth and conserueth hys Church Let vs not doubt but that Luther is in happy blessed estate let vs lament the losse ●acke of so vertuous heauely a father as duty byndeth vs to obey the wyt of God who hath reft vs such a rare ●ewel so let vs vnderstand Gods pleasure is we should cōsecrate to etern●●● y● memory of his vertues and benefites Let vs ●hen in thys apply ou● diligence let vs imitate as we be able his vertues which is expediet for vs to know that is the feare of God fayth feruecy

❧ A famous and godly history contaynyng the Lyues Actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christiā Church Martine Luther Iohn Ecolampadius and Huldericke Zuinglius The declaracion of Martin Luthers faythe before the Emperoure Charles the fyft and the illustre Estates of the Empyre of Germanye ▪ wyth an Oration of hys death all set forth in Latin by Phillip Melancthon Wolfangus Faber Capito Simon Grineus Oswald Miconus Newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian ⸫ ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in lytle Brittaine Streete by great Saint Bartelmewes ▪ Anno ▪ 1561. ¶ Encomy of Martine Luther A head where Pallas misteries wer fraight A face where ●oumy brigh●lye dyd appeare An eye that could discerne ech mynde ● sleight And eares contēpning priuate ●au● to heare A tong that dyd pronounce the sacred truth A prareirs pen that paynted well the same A zeale that moued Tigrish hartes to ru●he And could to vertue mild●●s mindes enflame A mynde aspiring ay to wysdomes throne A hart that neuer drad the Tirantes might A rocke that wold remoue from truth for none Disdayning death in quarell of the ryght These golden gifts in Luther shined bright For which he now receiues immortal light ¶ Psalme .cxvi. ¶ The death of the iuste is precious before the syght of God To the right honorable ▪ and his syng●good lord Thomas Lord Wentworth prosperous health and perpetual fel citye ⸫ NOT without immortal prayse euerlasting renowme ar the actes and monumentes of learned men cōmended to posterity For if life wtout litterature is as Seneca sayth a death or sepulture of the lyuely man the body as Plato wytnesseth no body but a sepulture cohibiting the minde from hys natural vigour how much excelleth he ryght honorable and my syngular good Lord in thys frayle estate who wyth studies of humanitye garnished wyth diuine knowledge adorned hath not onely enriched his natural vnderstāding but also made the same almost equiualent to Aungels comprehēding the glorious misteries of the eternal Father and his Sonne Iesus Christ Among these how much Martine Luther excelled his holy woorkes prophane monumentes besides the learned testimonies of many famous Clarkes abundantly deciare Reading therefore of late tyme the history of hys Lyfe and Actes setfoorth by the incomparable ornament of good learnyng Phillyp Melanethon I was therein maruaylously delighted efrsones perusing the same I was rauished with incredible desyre to bestow somtime in the translation therof Many vrgent causes moued me whereof y● principal be these Fyrst hys integrity of life godly conuersacion zelous affection towardes the propagacion of Gods holy word Secondly his animosity professyng Christ hys Maister hys learned conference wyth the temporall Ecclesiastical Estates of Germany his contempt of al worldly felicitye transitori pompe in respect of Christ hys Maister whom he purely professed and sincerely preached Lastly y● lamentable verses funerall Oracions of diuers bewayling the losse of this pearle of Christianity the traduction of this present historye into the Germaine Frenche Spanish Italian tonges by certayn godly persons exiled their natural country and dispersed in sundry Christian Territories wher Gods word is purely preached and all papistrye abolished By whyche it appeareth he was no lesse treasure and glory of hys Countrye spectacle and absolute Image of godly wysedome then terrour to all Papisme and such as builded the laud of theyr lyfe on the s●nde of ambicious seekyng My rude translacion symple trauayle I dedicate vnto your good Lordship as to the very Patron and fauourable Mecenas of all poore Studentes Whose honorable personage to pouder with condigne praise ●● a thing more due to your desertes the easy for my rude pen and more appertaineth to my duty then it stādeth wyth myne ability For who knoweth your Lordship and is ignoraunt of the rare gyftes that harbor in your head of the natural bountye that so brightly shineth in your countenaūce Who hath not hearde the renowmed brute of your constancye in Christian religion euen in these late wretched dayes whose noble hart neither tedious and long imprisonment neyther flowing heapes of worldly aduersity could fraight with feare or mooue to deflect to any sinister way and whose vertuous mynde in greatest troubles euermore aspired to the hygh temple where God in glorye is in throned I passe in silence your bounty towards al such as professe God vnfaynedly publishe abroade the fruites of theyr studies All which most heauenly desertes do not onely merite to be registred in the booke of Fame but also ministre ample occasion for your honorable personage whē the fatal Ladies shal spyn out the thre● of mortal life to be calendred in the Catalogue of those vertuous wyghtes Who for sundry their prowesses woorthye exploictes goodly graces and syngular giftes were by antiquitye consecrate to immortality And though your honour whose lyfe lightneth hys profession and whose profession purelye aduaunceth the glory of God and his sacred word disdayneth to be setforth wyth my rude penne yet your Lordshyp must beare with him that of good wyl pronoūceth this of your good deseries I coulde wade further in your honours commendacion but that I haue a certayn reuerence to trouble wyth my prolixitye your grauer affaires And partlye feare pulleth me back least I be spoiled with the nose of adulacion whose honorable eares abhorres to hear your proper praise and whose iudgement woulde condempne my temerarious attēpt herein Therefore sparing to speake that inwardly I conceiue I remyt this argument of blasing your heroiacal vertues to such excellent Rethoricians as far surmounting me in eloquence good lytterature as Phebus wyth hys bryght beames the lesser celestiall bodyes Thus humbly besechyng your honour to take in good parte the base and symple trauayle of a poore Callisian and also vouchsafe the Patronage of thys Christian history or rather myrrour of Christian lyfe Vnder whose protection I publyshe the same abroade I beseche the eternall God and hys Sonne Iesus Christe to preserue your Lordshyppe and the ryght honourable and vertuous Lady your Wyfe sende ye encrease of muche honour and graunt ye the accomplishment of your gentle hartes desyre From London thys ●● of Nouember 1561. ⸫ ¶ Your honours most humble Oratour Henry Bennet ❧ The hystory of the Lyfe and Actes of Martine Luther Doctour of Diuinitie Faythfully set foorth by Phillip Melan●thon ¶ THE reuerende Father Martin Luther promised in hys fatall tyme to publyshe aswell the discourse of hys lyfe as causes of hys conslicts whych he resolued to do yf death to greedy of her pray had not reft vs the society of hym and the heauens accelerated to place thys incomparable Iewell among the elect organes and vessels of God the father Therefore I iudge it necessary that the consideracion of hys particular lyfe be luculently set forth Since the same aboūded with manye good examples that may corroborate in syncere mindes the fear of god not

Emperial Maiesty and the natural bounty of other woulde not haue suffered the rest that be sounde to be persecuted wyth fire But thou resuscitatest and bryngest to lyght al that the general councel of Constance hath condempned the whych was assembled of al the nacion of Germany requirest to be conuinced with scriptures wherin thou errest greatly For what a●ay●eth it to renue disputacion of thinges so long tyme past condempned by the Church and Councels vnles it shoulde be necessarye to geue a reason to euery man of euery thyng That if all suche as impugne that which was decreed by the Churche and Councels may once get thys aduauntage to be cōu●nced by the scriptures we shall haue nothyng certain and established in Christendome And th●s is the cause wherfore the Emperial Maiesty requireth of thee a symple aunswer either a negatiue or an affirmatiue if thou wilt defend al thy workes as Christian or no Then Luther besought the Emperial Maiesty not to cōpell him to yeld against his conscience cōfirmed w●th the holy scriptures without manifest argumentes alledged by hys aduersaries declared his answer was not crooked but symple and direct further he had not to say then he aduertised before that if his enemies could not extricate wyth sufficient argumentes hys conscience occupyed as they sayd with errours he was not able to ryd hym self out of the snares wherin he was entangled And wheras the general Councels haue ordeyned certain thynges those therefore not to be tru for that thei haue erred often tymes gaynsayd them selues for thys cause the enemyes argument was of no solidity Further he was able to prooue and would constantly stand to the tryall the Councels had erred and it was not meete for hym to reuoke and dysanull that which is manifest and diligently set forth in the Scripture Wherunto the Offical aunswered simply to purpose and said No man could proue the Councell had erred but Luther alledged he could promysed to proue And now nyght approching the Lordes rose and departed And after Luther had taken hys leaue of the Emperour diuers Spaniards scorned scoffed the holy man in his way to his lodging hallowing hoopyng after hym a ●on● whyle The Fridaye following after the Princes Electours Dukes other Estates were assembled the Emperour sent to al them that were deputed Counseillors one letter contayning thys that foloweth Our Predecessors who truely were Christian Princes wer obedient to the Romish Church which Martine Luther presently impugneth And for as muche as he is not determined to call backe his errors in any one point we cānot without great infamy● and stayne of honor degenerate from the examples of our Elders but wyl maintayn the auncient fayth and geue ay●e to the sea of Rome And further we be resolued to pursue Martin Luther and his adherentes by excommuncacions and by other meanes that may be deuised to extinguish his doctrine Neuertheles we wyll not violate our fayth which we haue promised him but meane to geue order for hys safe returne to the place whence he came The Princes Electors Dukes and y● other Estates of the Empire sat cōsulted vpon this sentence Friday all the after noone and Saturdaye the whole day so that Luther yet had no aunswer of the Emperour During this tyme diuers Princes Earles Barons Knyghtes of the order Gentlemen Priestes Monkes with other the La●tye and common sort visited hym All these were present at all houres in the Emperours court and could not be satisfied with the sight of hym Also ther were hyls set vp one against Luther the other as it semed with him Notwithstanding many supposed especiallye such as wel conceiued the matter y● this was subtilly done by hys enemies y● therby occasiō might be offred to infringe the safeconduct giuen him the which the Romayne Embassadours with al sedulity endeuoured to bring to passe The monday folowing before supper the Archbyshop of Triers aduertised Luther that on wednesday next he should appeare before him at syxe of the clocke before Dynner assigned hym the place On Saint Georges day the Archbishoppe of Triers great Vicar about Supper tyme cam to Luther by the commaundement of hys Prynce sygnifieng that at the houre and place prescribed he muste the morrow after haue accesse to hys Mayster The morrow after S. Georges day Luther obeying the Archbishops commaundement entred his palaice beyng accompanied thyther wyth hys said great Vicar and one of the Emperours Herauldes and such as cam in hys companye out of Saronye to Wormes with other his chiefe friends Where as Doctor Voeus the Marques of Bades Chaplein began to de clare and protest in the presence of the Archbishop of Triers Ioachyme Marques of Brandeburge George Duke of Sarony the Byshoppes of Ausburg Brandeburge the Earle George Iohn Back of Strasburge Verdeheymer Peutinger Doctors that Luther was not called to be conferred with as of a different or disputacion but onelye that the Princes had procured licence of Themperors Maiesty through Christian charity to haue liberty graunted vnto the to exhort Luther benignely brotherly He said further that albeit the Coūcels had ordeyned diuers thinges yet they had not determined contrarye matters And albeit they had greatly erred yet their aucthoritye was not therfore abased or at the least not so erred that it was lawfull for euerye man to impugne their opinions Further he alledged certayne thinges of Zacheus the Centurion of the decrees and tradicions of men of the ceremonies ordeined affirmyng that al these were established to repres the vices according to the quality reuolucion of tymes and that the Church could not be destitute of humayn constitucions Further that the tree is knowen by the fruit the lawes haue much profited and S. Martin Saint Nicholas and many other Sayntes haue assisted the Councels Moreouer that Luthers bokes wold brede great tumult incredible troubles that be abused the cōmon sort wyth hys booke of Christian liberty encouraging them to shake of theyr ●oke and to confirme in them a disobedience That presently the worlde was at an other stay ●he when y● beleuers wer a● of one ha●t soule therfore it was expedient to haue lawes Thys was worthye consideracion that albeit he ha● wry●t● many good thynges and dout●es wyth a goodly spirit as of Triple Iustice and other yet now the deuil attempted by wyly meanes that al hys workes for euer more should be cōdempned and that by these hys last workes it is easye to knowe the ●re● by the fruite and not by the blossome Here he added somethynge of the noone Dyuell of the Spirite commynge in the darke and of the fliyng arrowe All hys Oracion was exhortatorye full of common places of Rethoricke of honesty of vtility of lawes of the daungers of conscience and of the common and particular healthe repeatyng oft thys sentence in the Proeme myddle and ●p●●o●● of hys Oration That thys

adm●n●●●on was geuen hym of a singular good wyl and great clemency In the shutting vp of hys Oration he added m●na●inges saying that yf he would abyde in hys purposed entent the ●mp●rour would procede further exterminate hym the Empire perswadyng hym deliberatlye to ponder and aduise these and other thynges Martine Luther aunswered Most noble Princes my moste gracious Lordes I render most humble thankes for your benignities and syngular good wylles whence proceedeth thys admonicion For I knowe my selfe to be so base as by no meanes I can deserue a●monicion of so great Princes Then he frankely pronounced he had not reproue● all Councels but onely the Councel of Constance and for this principal cause that the same condempned the word of God whych appeared in the ●●n●empnacion of thys Article proponed by Iohn ●usse The Churche of Christ is the Communion of the P●●●e●●inate It is euident the Counc●l of Const●c● abolished thys article consequently thys article of our faith I beleue the holy Church vniuersall And that he was ready to spend lyfe and bloud s● he were not compelled to call backe the manyfest word of God for in defence therof we ought rather to obey God then men And that in thys he coulde not ad-2noyde the scandale of fayth for there is two scandales or offences to saye of Charity of Fayth The scandale of Charity consisteth in maners in lyfe The scandale of Fayth or doctrine resteth in the word of God as touching thys last he could escape it no maner of wayes for it laye not in his power to make Christ not y● stone of scandale If Christes sh●pe wer fed wyth pure pasture of the Gospell If the fayth of Christ wer sincerely preached if ther were any good Ecclesiastical Maiestrates who duly executed their office we should not nede to charge the Church with mens tradiciōs Further he knew wel we ought to obey the Maiestrates higher powers how vniustly peruers●● so euer they lyued We ought also to geue place to our iudgmet al which he had taught in al hys workes adding further he was ready to obey them in al pointes so that they inforced him not to deny the woord of God Then Luther was byd stand aside and the Princes con●u●●ed what aunswer thei might geue him This done they called him into a Parlour wher as the Doctor of Bade repeated hys former matters admonithyng Luther ●o submyt hys writinges to the Emperour and Empires iudgement Luther aunswered humbly and modestly he coulde not neyther woulde permit that men should say he would thunne the iudgement of the Emperour Princes supreme Estates of the Empyre weying so s●lenderlye their examinacion that he was contented to suffer his writings most diligently to be read ouer considered iudged of the simplest so y● this were done with the authority of the word of God holy scripture And that the word of God made so much for hym and was so manyfest vnto hym that he woulde not geue place vnles they taught sound doctrine then the word of God And y● S. Au●ten wryteth he had learned to geue this honor onely to those bookes which are called Canonicall that he beleued them to be true And as touching the other Doctors albeit in holynes and excellency of learning they passed he would not credit them vnles they pronounced truth Further that Sayncte Paule had wrytten to the Thessalonians proue all things folow that is good And to the Galathians although an Aungel should descend from heauen if he preach otherwyse let him ●e accursed and therfore not worthy to be beleued Finally he mekely besought them not to vrge his conscience fastened with the ●andes of the woorde of God and holy scripture to deny that same excellent word And thus he cōmended hys cause and hym selfe to them and specially to the Emperors Maiestye requiring their helpe he myghte not be compelled to do anye thyng in thys matter agaynste hys conscience And otherwyse he would submyt hym selfe in all causes most obedientlye And answering thus Ioachime Elector Marques of Brandeburge demaunded if he had sayd he would not yelde vnles he were conuinced wyth the scripture Yea trulye ryght noble Lord quoth Luther or els by auncient and euident reasons Thus the assemble brake and the Princes repayred to the Emperours court The Archbishop of Triers abode accompanied with hys Official Iohn Ecke Cochleus cōmaūded Luther to come into hys chamber Ierome Schurff Nicholas Ambsdorff assisted to mayntaine Luthers cause Then the Official began to frame an argument like a Sophist Canonist defending the Popes cause That for the most part at al tymes holy scriptures haue engendred errors as the same of Heluidius the Arian out of that place in the Gospel where is expressed Ioseph knew not his wyfe til she was deliuered of her fyrst chylde Further he grew to ouerthrow thys proposiciō that the Catholik Church is the Cōmunion of Sayntes presuming also of Cocle to make wheat of bodily excremēts to cōpact mēbers Martin Luther Ierome Schurffe reproued these folyes other vaine and ridiculous matters whych Ecke brought forth but modestli as things not seruing to the purpose Somtyme Cochleus would entermedle his murmuring chattes and laboured to perswade Luther to desist from hys purpose vtterly to refraine thenceforth to wryte or teach so they departed About euening the Archbyshop of Triers aduertised Luther by Ambsdorff the Emperours promise made vnto him was prolonged two daies in the meane season he would conferre wyth him the next daye and for that cause he woulde sende Doctour Peutinger the Doctor of Bade the morrow after to hym and he himself would also talke with hym The Friday then that was Saynt Markes day Peutinger the Doctor of Bade trauailed in the forenone to perswade Luther simply and absolutely to submit the iudgement of his writinges to Themperor Empire He aunswered he would do submyt any thing they woulde haue hym so they grounded with the authoritye of holy scripture otherwyse he woulde not consent to do any thing For god sayd by his Prophet saith he Trust ye not in Princes nor in the children of men in whom there is no health Also cursed be he that trusteth in me And seyng them vrge him more vehemently he aunswered We ought to submit no more to the iudgement of men then the word of God doth So they departed and prayed hym to aduise for better aunswer and said they would returne after Dynner After Dynner they returned exhortyng as before but in vayne They prayed him at the least he would submit his writyng to the iudgement of the next general Councel Luther agreed therunto but wyth this condicion that they them selues shoulde present the Articles collected out of his bookes to be submitted to the Councel in this maner notwythstandyng that the sentence awarded by the coūcel should be authorised by the scripture

were excellent woorthy men who established and gouerned large Realmes great Empires yet were they mu●● inferiour then these our Guides Esa● Iohn Baptist S. Paule Austen and Luther It is necessary for vs to vnderstand these differentes in the Church What then are the absolute true matters y● Luther hathe manifested which geueth great glory to his workes and maketh hys praise liue in the mouth of men Many cry out that the Church is disturbed controuersies planted in them not easy to be vnfolded I aunswer to these Suche is the gouernment of the Churche when the holy Ghost argueth the worlde many dissentions growe through the peruers stubbornes of the wycked they are in fault y● wyll not heare the Sonne of God of whom the Father pronoūceth Heare hym Luther hath reueled the true necessary doctrine for it is most certain ther was wonderfull grosse darknes in the doctrine of repentannce This discussed he declareth what is perfecte penitence which is the trusty port assured comfort of the spirite astonyed with the felyng of Gods anger He hath illumined S. Paules doctrine whych treateth ma is iustified by fayth He hath expressed what difference is betwyxte the Law the Gospel betwixt spiritual ciuil Iustice He hath explaned what is the true inuocacion of God and reuoked the Church wholy from al Pagane and prophane lunacy and furor who fayne that God is inuocated when the spirites oppressed wyth Academical douts flee God He hath exhorted to praier in pure cōscience hath guided vs as it wer by the hand to the onely mediatour the Sonne of God syttynge at the ryghte hande of God the Father and interceadynge for vs not to Images and dead me as the Infidels moued wyth horrible madnes inuocated Idolles and senceles Stockes He hath also instructed other dutyes acceptable to God and so a dourned and fortefied ciuil life as none to thys day wyth more perfection Further he hath sequestred childish instituciō of humain ceremonies y● customs aud lawes lettyng true inuocation from necessary workes And that this heauenly doctrine manyfested might come to posteritye he translated the Prophetes and Apostles workes into hys maternal tong wyth such perspi●uitye that hys traduction geueth more lyght to the Readers then the Commentaries of diuers other Hereunto he hath added manye Enarrations the whych as Erasmus in tyme paste affirmed passed all others that be extant And as it is reported of such as reedified Ierusalem that they buylded with one hand and held the sword wyth the other euen so Luther fought agaynst y● enemyes of Christian doctrine and at that instant deuised enarracions replenished wyth heauenlye doctrine and in thys exployte he hath comforted and releued the consciences of many with faythfull Councels And as it appeareth the greatest part of his doctrine surmounteth the compasse of humayne capacity as the doctrine of remission of syns fayth So muste we necessarilye confesse he was taught of God and diuers of vs haue sene his conflictes in the which he learned that we should perswade our selues this that by fayth we are heard and receaued of God The sincere godly wyts shal celebrate foreuer the benefites whyche God hath conferred to his Church by Luther and fyrste they shall render thankes to God then protest they ar much obliged to hys learned labors albert the Atheistes who vniuersally haue the church in derisiō esteme an● iudge these true offices and dutyes a chyidysh pastime a mere folye and alienacion of the mynde He hath not excitated indissoluble disputacions neither proponed to the Church the Apple of contencion nor published obscurities enigmes For he is easy to the faythful godly and such as be of sound vnderstandyng sclaunderouslye wyll not geue iudgement by conference of sentences to cōsider what agreeth with the heauenly doctrine and what dissenteth And that more is the godly are fully resolued ▪ that these differentes were longe synce appointed For since Gods pleasure is we should behold know hys wyll in the Prophetes and Apostles workes in the which he hath manyfested hymselfe we maye not thynke hys woordes are doubtfull as the leaues of Sibilla But some which wer not peruers haue compiayned that Luther was more vehement then n●de required I wyl not dispute against any but I aunswer this that Erasmus hath often said God hath giuen this last age a sharpe Phisiciō because of y● great diseases of the same therfore synce he hath reysed such an organe against the truthes enemies and agaynst the proude and impudent as he hath said to Ieremy beholde I haue placed my wordes in thy mouth to th ende thou shouldest destroy edefye also hath pleased hym to set before their beards this Gorgon or buckler in vaine thei quarell wyth God God gouerneth hys Church not by mans Counsels netheir wyll haue hys organes all alyke This is a common thing mean and moderate spirites cannot brooke vehement motions whether they be good or euyll Aristides beholdynge Themistocles enterprise great matters wyth a patheticall incitacion of the minde wherof he had prosperous successe althoughe he dyd gratulate the cōmon weales prsperity yet he laboured diligētly to reuoke Themistocles vehement mynde from y● course Neyther I deny that sometymes vehement mocions offend ther is none in thys infirmity of Nature voide of spot Yet if ther be any such as the autentick writers haue reported of Hercules Cimon and other deformed misshapen yet apt and vpryght in excellent exploictes Certaynly I must confesse that these be good and praise worthy and as S. Paule sayth yf he do hys duty wel in the Church obseruyng fayth and a pure conscience he is acceptable to God and we oughte to reuerence hym We knowe that Luther hath bene such for constantly he hath mayntained the sinceritye of the Gospel and retayned an integrity of conscience Now what is he that hath knowen Luther is ignoraunt wyth what humanity he was garnished How af fable he was to al such as in familiar conference or graue deuise had to do wyth hym How voyde he was of contencion brawle yet among these vertues he had such a grauity as decently became hys callyng His manners wer good his wordes swete and pleasaunt Finally althinges as S. Paule saith wer in him true honest iust pure amiable renoumed in so much that we maye plainly perceyue hys vehemencye proceded of a zelous affection he bare to the truth rather then of any natural sharpenes here of not onely we but many are euidēt witnesses As touching the rest of his lyfe whyche hee prolonged to .lxiii. yeares employing the same with feruent affection in the feare of God in al good liberal scieces if I had deliberated to say ought in hys prayse what ample theame what abundāce of matter is ministred to me to frame an excellent goodly Oratiō No inordinate desires no sedicious coūsels raigned

as accuse vs. Ye haue tryed our constancye and faythfulnes and well perceyued our enemies leuity and dissimulaciō Be present wyth our company obserue constantly the fayth ye owe to God men What shal I say further dread nothyng we wyl atchieue al thynges so prosperously God helping vs as ye shall not be a shamed nor repent ye haue combyned your selues wyth vs. These were Zuinglius woordes whych I haue recited here to declare how iniustlye he is nominated of certayne a Bloudsucker It is most true he was magnanimous and cōstant in greatest daungers but alwayes cyrcumspect prouident and wise He neuer thursted the bloud of anye no ●ot of hys extremest foes whych euerye wyse man Christiā Minister ought to detest The very ground foundacion of al hys enterprises was the libertye of hys Countrye the vertue of the Aunceltors the glory of Christ what so euer his enemies ceblaterate the which I protest in trouth before God He was twyse in the warres of the confederates which bare y● name of a Monasterye called the Chappell He wyllinglye went to the firste because he would be present at the consultacion fearyng any thyng shoulde be decree● ther contrary to right and equity The matter was ended well and without effusion of broud I haue heard him say he perceiued more malice and peruers counsel ther then euer before he red in vokes or had learned by experience In the second war he was elected Pastor of the armye where he went vnwyllyngly foreseing the peryl that was iminent The condicion of the warre mysliked hym marueilously and the rather for that he sawe the enemyes victailes cut of vnderstanding well what myschiefe hunger would brede compel Albeit to speake truly after those of Zurick had enterprysed the same wherunto certayne whom we knowe prycked them of a good zeale hopynge in the meane season there would be a consultacion and treaty of peace made notwithstanding the Lordes of Zuricke had chose the warce Zuinglius was not determined to alter anye thyng doubting the enemyes woulde make no accompt of them as he passed not much to wythstand theyr inuasion Fourtene dayes before the armye was encamped I hearde hym twyse say in pulpit wher he preached in the midst of this broil I know wel what thys meaneth all thys is to procureiny death He declared secretly to certayne of his friendes that the blasing starre which appeared many wekes and whiche we supposed to portende Ecolampadius decease signified hys fatal fall The Soldiours of Zuricke rushed forth in great disorder I cannot but sorowfully lament when I cal to mynde that doleful tyme. They marched not lyke men of warre in euen rankes but lyke a sorte of venturours some straglyng abroade some runnyng before and behynde the Enseygne destitute of conduct counsell and pollecye and accorded not one wyth an other I cannot name them to be any great nomber of me of armes for wher thei wer mustred 5000. they appeared not in the field ful 4000. Then as thys lyttle nomber approched to encountre a huge army and in perfect order Zuinglius folowed mounted on hors backe accordyng to the maner of the Country I cannot expresse the dolor and sorrowe I susteyned when I beheld him truly I was astonished ther with We mourned all that day and made our humble prayer vnto God But he hadde decreed an other thyng for vs and not agaynst vs as I holily expounded the same For by thys we haue learned to be more circumspect and to take better hede reuerencyng more the Gospel and fearyng God also And the enemyes that resisted the Gospel are now disclosed and manifested to vs. About the euenyng of the day we were aduertised that the battayles had ioyned very hotely that we had lost Zuinglius The brute went he was thrise dismounted with the checke of the Troupe but incontinētly he was holpen vp on horseback● agayn and the fourth tyme he was stryken on the chynne with a terryble blowe and fallyng downe from hys horse vpon hys knees he sayd what euyl hap is thys they may flea the body but not the soule and thys spoken he departed in our Lord. After thys ouerthrow the enemies hauyug good leysure for our Soldiours were retired into place of safegarde sought for the body of Zuinglius But who teld them he was in that battayle and slayne The body beyng founde was condempned and after sentence geuen dismembred burnt to ashes Behold y● discourse of Zuinglius lyfe lo the accident of his death which he suffered for the singular affection he bare to hys Countrye and Christian common weale Truth it is thys end is horryble in the syght of mortall men but precious before God and is predestinate to al faithful Ministers by diuine iustice if y● Lord of hys grace and syngular bountye spare them not I suppose Agathy I haue satisfied your request I haue obserued as I promysed trouth ioyned wyth breuitye not forcyng for fyne termes and elegāt phrases I pray God some learned and godlye man succedinge me may descriue and beautefy thys historye as truely ornately and learnedly as the profite of the studious sort and the dygnitye of thys excellent man doe requyre Farewell it maye please you to accept thys my trauayle in friendly part At Zurycke the yeare 1532. Virescit vulnere virtus ¶ To the fauourable Reader IHumbly require thee fauourable Reader to beare wyth such faultes as haue escaped in the prynting I trust in the next impression more emendaily to publish these godlye histories In the meane season I thought good to admonishe thee of one absurdirye whiche might argue mere ignoraunce if I would not aduertise thee of the same In my Epistle dedicatorye to the Lorde Wentworth where as is wrytten and the body is no body but a sepulture reat sepulchre The rest I submit to th● learned correction Farewel Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in lytle Britayne str●te by great S. Battelmewes ⸫ ●cla●nder gaynste Luther His ●o try and rentes The yeare of Luthers ●●rth The ●oun 〈…〉 acions of 〈…〉 ys study 〈…〉 he liueli 〈…〉 s of spi 〈…〉 His study in the ciui 〈…〉 law His entry● into the monastery Incredible sobriety What moued him to Monkery His abashmentes at the wrath of God Hys studie in the holy scripture He is comforted by an old mā ●re remissiō of sins An excellent declaracion of ▪ s Bernard touchyng fayth The profit of s Austins vokes Instituciō of the Vniuersitye at Vitteberg Luther passed Doctor Luther taught Iesus Christ Luthers Proposicions of pardons The sclaūders of Tecel Iacobite Homere Prayse of Fridericke Duke of Sarony Erasmus approueth Luthers doctrine Declaracion of the principall poyntes of Religion Who were ●n cause the cerimonies ●ver chaunged Wormes Chaunges are daungerous The gouernaunce ●f y● Church Prudenc● to discerne offices Monetarius sedicions Assurance of the doctrine of the Gospell Four chaūges since the Apostles Ignorāce of tyme marreth that sentence S. Augustine restorer of the doctrine Deprauation of Ecclesiastical ministers The beginning of 2. sortes of Friars The Gospel turned into Philosophy The impieties of the Scholastical doctrin Luther hath repurged y● doctrine The sōme of all that Luther taught Luther is sent for to Wormes Constancy in Luther Luther is 〈…〉 roughte ●efore the ●mperor In●errogacio● Ierome Shurffe Lut●ers aunswer Luther is exhorted to be constant Luther geueth accompt of hys faythe before the Emperor He requireth to be instructed if he haue erred Luther sollicited agayne to submyt hym selfe Luthers absolute answer The Emperors aun●wer a●aynst Luther ●●●la●●cions made to Luther to seduce 〈…〉 The councel of Constance condempned the woorde of God Scandale of Fayth Charity The word of 〈…〉 onely true False argumentes for y● Pope 〈…〉 Familiar talke betwene the archbishop Luther Counsel● Gamali●l ▪ ●uthers cō●●ncy Luthers ●parture ●● Wormes The sycknes of Lother Hisdiseas● The sōm of ●uther doctrine The gouernment of the churche Doctour sent of go to gouer● y● Church The fyr 〈…〉 Guides ● the chur 〈…〉 The sucssors of apostles Luther hathe manifested y● doctrine Erasmus testimonye of Luther Luthers conf●i●tes Luthers vehemēcie excused Luthers humanity Luthers integrity Luthers earnest prayers Subtilty of hys Spirite Hys eloquence Feliciti in the other lyfe The Aungels whyche ascend descend A prayer of thankes geuyng Iohn 14. The last cōmendaciōs of Iohn Ecolampadius Ecolampadius Country Discourse of Ecolampadius study Ecolampadius hated ambicion The carle Palatine sent for Ecolāpadius He was in 〈…〉 ituted Preacher The vanitye of ▪ false Preachers 〈…〉 a d 〈…〉 to be a 〈…〉 ch●r at Bas●●e Erasmus ayded of Ecolampadius Ecolampadius apointed Preacher in Auspurg Ecolampadius agreeth to be a Moonke He is prrsecuted Fraunces Sickengen a louer of truth Ecolampa dius professeth diuini●y● at Basile His translacions Contencion for the Gospel The iourney Reformacion of the gospel at bern Sediciō at Basile The censure of excōmunicacion receiued The exer 〈…〉 ses of Ecolampadiu● The of●●es of a tru 〈…〉 astor Scla●nde of that death of Ecolanpadius The insatiable malice of the wycked aga●●● the ●●ste godly Ecolampdius trauayles Suyces warre Brotherly friendly visitacion of Ecolampadius Ecolampadius last exhortacion The waye to ouerthrow Sathan Hys protestaciō that he taughte the verity The place ●her zuinclius was orne His parēts Zuinglius was a Musician Zuingliꝰ is sent to Berne His studye of Philosophy The profit of M●●●● Theologie corrupted wyth Philosophy Zuinglius chosen Pastor of Glaris Things requisite to a Preacher whēre we ought to ta 〈…〉 the knowle●e of y● holye Scripture Zuingliꝰ zeale against Pensionaries Zuingliꝰ called to Zuricke Martine Luther Zuingliꝰ Lectures A letter sēt by Adrian y● Pope to Zuingliꝰ The Popes mandate The Monkes see at lyberty Heresye of Anabaptistes Zuingliꝰ oppo●●th hymself agaynst the heresies of the Anabaptistes Iniuries blasphemyes agaynst Zuinglius Disputation at bad● The Pristes and Monkes ▪ growē on of credit Zuingliꝰ writeth to hys friendes