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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25854	Mr. John Arndt (that famous German divine) his book of Scripture declaring that every child of God ought and must 1. daily die to the old Adam, but to Christ live daily, 2. and be renewed to the image of God day by day, 3. and in the new-birth live the life of the new creature / translated out of the Latine copie by Radulphus Castrensis Antimachivalensis.; Wahres Christenthum. 1. Buch. English	Arndt, Johann, 1555-1621.; Antimachivalensis, Radulphus Castrensis.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3731; ESTC R16074	180,338	440

Mr. JOHN ARNDT that famous German Divine His Book of Scripture DECLARING That every Child of GOD ought and must 1. Daily die to the old Adam but to Christ live daily 2. And be renewed to the Image of God day by day 3. And in the New-birth live the life of the New Creature Translated out of the Latine Copie By Radulphus Castrensis Antimachivalensis LONDON Printed by Mat. Simmons for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMOND Lord SHEFFIELD Baron of Butterwick Earle of Moultgrave and Knight of the most Honorable Order of the Garter RIght Honorable thrice Noble Lord pardon my sudden abrupt incounter in so saluting you without preamble yet true it is thrice renowned for three remarkable noble actions * 1681. First for the incounter of the French Geryon Francis de Valoise Duke of Alonson in the presence of Queen Elizabeth and giving him the Buffe at the Barriers * 1686. Secondly your faithful and valorous incounter of the Irish Iohn Gerond Desmond in the Gerondine war of that kingdom managed by your brother-in-law Thomas Bot●eler Earle of Ormond and Osserie you being his true Patroclus in armes to the utter ruine and extirpation of the Gerardine rebels The * 1581. third your adventurous assistance given to your thrice noble Uncle Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham in the incounter overthrow of the Spanish Armado in 88. termed Invincible in their high conceit that intended the ruine and overthrow of the Realm of England the true Religion and destruction of Queen Elizabeth of famous and long-fasting memory your dread Soveraigne Mistresse For these thrice-noble and three-fold actions counted worthily one of her Majesties Worthies and elected the yeare following to bee one of the thrice noble Order of the Garter If I said no more it were sufficient I might here pause your government being Lord President of the North for the space of sixteen years holding the Bucklers against the Espaniolized undermining Jesuits of the North sowing even then the seed of this unnaturall warre the Ashes of the Powder-treason as one termeth it will speak if I were silent your open protestations and endeavours to discover the continuall undermining practices of the hellish Locusts still seeking the subversion of Religion Lawes and Liberty of the Subject to bring this Kingdome into the thraldome of Pope and Spaniard is not to be forgotten by him that was a continuall eare-witnesse of it nor likewise your safe and faithfull counsell during this unnaturall warre now of late yeares broken forth The intelligence sent to Mendosa anno 1588. after so many yeares hatching and contriving Nor can I passe by without remembrance your ever to be remembred constancy and perseverance in your vertues for Faius the reader of divinity In Geneva secund Iacobi the true Christianity the most part of eighty yeares wherein I flatter not as many both at home and even in forain parts can and doe beare witnesse After sixty yeares experience of your particular favours and love extended towards me I should shew my selfe ungratefull if I at this time were silent to you when the Divine Providence did incite me to this which followeth The changing of this work of Reverend John Arndt intituled True Christianity into our home-spun habit being a work so well approved of in forain parts so often printed and translated out of the German tongue as I shall need to say nothing thereof the worke will approve it selfe Onely I beseech your Honour to accept in good part of this my aged trembling and halfe-forgotten faculty such as it is full of defects even such as I could which if the garment be not fitting the person of reverend John Arndt I wish him hearty good will that shall amend it and humbly intreat your Honour to accept of this my labour as your accustomed manner is with the good will you have ever shewed me and entertain it as a token of my thankfulnesse unto your Honour for your long-continued love ever to be remembred whose property is to change the lover into the beloved and so desireth to continue your Honors obliged servant unto death Radulphus Castrensis Antimachivalensis To the Courteous Readers COurteous and loving Readers for to you onely doe I write in stead of an eloquent Exordium I humbly intreat you would be pleased to extend your patience untill you have read my part-impertinent narration in which doing for Conclusion let the Criticks think what they please And thus I begin In the time of William Rufus and Henry Beauclark Kings of England there lived one * By some called Iohannet Anglicus after his death John of the Town of Beverley in the County of York who when the Churches of all the Arch-bishoprick of York were indicted by the Pope from saying Service and their doores shut up for many years by reason of the strife between Langfrank Archbishop of Canterbury and Thomas Archbishop of York concerning the preheminency prerogative of those two Archbishopricks such was the eager contention for and concerning the ambition in them both that they could be content to discontinue the open-church-service of God for many yeares rather then to yeeld to each other after the humble example of Jesus Christ nor could the strife be ended or determined by any godly or learned Bishop or men of this Kingdome untill by appeale to the Pope his thunder-bolt of excommunication was sent against Thomas his Monks and Clergy-men in all his Dioceses During which time of suspension from the Sacerdotiall Function this John was debarred from his Church office in the mean time he bethought how to imploy himselfe in some laudable exercise for avoiding of Idlenesse which moved him to write the Brittish Roman and Saxon Story from tbe entrance of Brute untill his time compiled in one volume concurring in substance with Galfridus Monumetensis the Welshman in the following Age who writ and lived sixty yeares after the said John Which being so the said * Walter of Cale●● Archdeacon of Oxford delivered a History written in the British tongue from Bru●e to Cadwalladar to Ieffrey of Monmouth to translate as writeth R. W. Jeffrey of Monmouth was not worthy of neither is guilty of that aspersion laid upon him in these latter times as being an inventer of the Welsh Story and not before his time ever heard of by any Which two Historians being so farre distant as Beverly and Monmouth and being by their originals births from severall people descended the one a Britain or Welshman the other a Yorkshire man by ancient Writers termed Brigantes for distance from each other both in language and place doth imply that they agreeing in the substance of the Story had some former Historians as Coleman 1140. the Saxon Gildas Historicus or Gildas * As writteth V. P. Poeta who lived and writ in the time of * A●●eri●●●ene●ensis 890. Claudius Caesar or some others to be