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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

thee with ardent affection that for thy glory the glory of thy sonne Iesus Christ thou wylt collect vnto thy selfe in the voyce of thy Gospell among vs one perpetual Churche and that for the d●are loue of thy Sonne oure Lorde Iesus Christ our mediator intercessor thou wylt gouerne vs by thy holy Gho●● that we vnfainedly maye call vpon thee and serue thee iustly Rul● also the studies of thy doctrine gouerne and conserue the policies and discipline of the same whych be the Nur●●s of thy Church scholes And sythe thou hast created mankind that thou mayest be knowen inuocated of the same and that for thys respect thou hast reuealed thy selfe by many c●●are testimonies permit not thys smal nomber and selected ●●ocke that professe ●ny sacred w●or● to be defaced and ouercome And the rather for that thy sonne Iesus Christ readye to fight agaynst death hath p●ayed in this maner for vs Father sanctifye them in verity thy woord is veritye We con●oyne our prayer wyth the prayer of thys our ho●ye Pr●est we make peticion w●th hym that thy doctrine may th●●e among m● and that we may be directed by the same We heard Luther euermore pray in thys wyse and so praying hys innocent Ghost peaceably was separated from the earthy corps whē he had lyued al most th●ee score and three yeares Such as succeded haue diuers monumentes of hys doctrine godlines He wrote certain instructing works wherein he comprised a salutiferous and necessarye doctrine for men teaching the sincere myndes penitence the fruites of the same the vse of the Sacramentes the difference betwyxt the Gospel and Philosophy the dignity of politike order finally the principall articles of the doctrine conducible to the Church He composed certayne workes to reproue wherin he refuteth diuers pernicious errours He also deuised bookes of interpretacion in which he wrote many enarracions and exposicions of the Prophetes and Apostels and in this kind his very enemies cōfesse he excelleth all other whose workes are imprinted and published abrode Then al Christiās godly myndes conceyue what prayse he merited but certainlye hys exposicion of the old new Testament with vtility and labour is equiualent to al his workes For in the same is so much perspicuitye that it maye serue in steede of a Commentary though it be red in the Germayne tonge And yet this is not a naked Exposition but it contayneth verye learned Annotacions and Argumentes of euerye parte The whych both set foorthe the somme of heauenlye doctrine and instructeth the Reader the sacred phrase and manner of speakynge in the Scriptures that the godlye myndes maye receyue fyrme testimonies of the doctrine oute of the verye fountaynes Hys mynde was not to keepe vs occupyed in hys woor●es but to guyde our Spirites to the verye sprynges Hys wyll was we shoulde heare God speake and that by hys woorde true fayth and inuocacion myght ve kyndeled in oure myndes that GOD myght be sincerely honoured and adored and that manye myghte bee made Inheritours of the euerlasting lyfe It behooueth v● thankefullye to accepte hys good wyll and great labours and to imitate the same as our Patron and by hym to learne to adorne the Churche accordyng to oure power For we must referre all oure lyfe enterprises and deliberacions to twoo principal endes Fyrst to illustrate the glory● of God Secondly to profite the Churche As touchyng the fyrst Saynct Paule sayth Doo all thynges to the glorye of God And of the seconde it is sayde in the hūdred twenty and two Psalme Pray that Ierusalem maye prosper and there followeth a syngular promyse added in thys versic●e that such as loue the Church shal prosper and haue good successe Let these heauenly commaundementes and diuine be hestes allure all men to learne the true doctrine of the Churche to loue the faythful Ministers of the Gospel and the true Teachers and to employ theyr whole studye and diligence to augment the true doctrine and mayntayne concord and vnity in the trewe Church ⸫ Martine Luthers declaracion of hys doctrine before the Emperours Maiesty Charles the fyft the Princes Electors the Estates of the Empyre in the i●urney an● assembly of Princes at Wormes ⸫ THE yere of our saluacion ▪ 1621. about 17. ●ayes after Passeouer Martin Luther entred Wormes beyng sent for by the Emperour Charles the fift of hys name king of Hispaine Archeduke of Aust●ich c. Who the firste yeare of his Empire made the first assembly of Princes in this regal City And wher as Martin Luther had published three yeres before certayne new propositions and such as before were neuer proponed to be disputed in the Towne of Witteberg in Sarony against the ●●ranny of the Pope the which not wythstanding were torne in peeces condempned and burned by the Papists and yet by no manyfest Scriptures ●● probable reason conuinced the matter began to tende to tumult and mutiny and yet Luther mayntained a● this whyle opēly his cause against the Clergye Whereupon it seemed good according to the sollicitacion of the Romayne Legates that Luther should be called assigning vnto hym an Herauld of Armes wyth letter of safe cōduct by the Emperour Princes Being sent for he came and addressed hym to the Knyghtes of the Rhodes place where he was lodged wel entertained and visited of many Earles Barons Knights of thord●r Gentlemen Priestes the Cōmon●y who frequēted his lodging til night To conclude he came besides the expectacion of many as wel aduersaries as other For al be it he was sent for by the Emperours Messenger had letters of safe conduct Yet for that a fewe dayes before his accesse hys bookes were condempned by publicke proclamacions euery man beleued for thys preiudice he woulde not come And the rather for the his friendes deliberated together in a nye Village called Oppenehim where Luther was firste aduertised of these occurrentes many perswaded him not to submit himselfe to any daunger considering these beginninges aunswered not the fayth of promyse made Who whē he had heard their whole perswasion aduise he answered in thys wyse As touching me synce I am sent for I am resolued certenly determined to enter Wormes in the name of the Lord Iesus Christ yea although I knew ther were so many Deuils to resist me as ther are tyles to couer the houses in Wormes The fourth day after his repayre a Gentleman named Vlricke of Pappenhim Lieutenant general of the mē of Armes of the Empire was cōmaūded by the Emperor before dynner to repayre to Luther enioyne the same at 4. a clock in the after noone to appeare before themperial Maiesty the Princes Electors Dukes other Estates of thempire to vnderstand the cause of his appellation Whereunto he willingly agreed as his duty was And after foure of the clocke Vlr●k Pappen him and Caspar Sturm the Emperours Heraul●e who conducted Mart●n Luther from W●●teberg to Wormes came for Luther and

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

in praier cleannes in ministerye chastity diligence to eschew counsels tendyng to sedicion and desyre to learne And as it behoueth vs to remēber the other faythful gouernours of the Churche whose histories we reade as Ieremy Iohn Baptist S. Paule So let vs consider oftentymes the doctrine and order of thys reuerend father herewyth let vs adde prayer and action of thankes as it becōmeth vs now to do in thys assembly WE render thankes vnto the O most puissant God eternal father of our Lord Iesus Christ founder of thy Church together with thy sonne coeternall our Lorde Iesus Christ the holye ghost wyse good mercyful ryghteous iudge mighty hauing power ouer althings for that thou ga●her●st vnto thy sonne an enheritaunce conse●uest the ministery of the Gospel now by Luther hast restored the same And we pray thee with feruent affection that thou wilt conserue and gouerne henceforth the church seale in vs thy true doctrine as Esay prayeth for his Disciples that thou wylt illumine our vnderstāding by thy holy ghost that in truth we may cal vpon thee and lyue holyly Furthermore because the decease of excellent gouernours is oftē a presage or foreshewing of great inconue niēces to come to such as shal succede I and al those that professe ministery require you to consider the daungers wherunto the whole world is subiect The Turkes inuade of one side on the other domestical enemies threatē intestine wars Ther ●urke also eueri where licencious insolent heades who after they shal cease to feare Luthers censure seuere correction wil not stycke audaciously to corrupt this doctrine of vs faythfully taught Finally that God may withdraw such inconueniences let vs apply our diligence to lyue wel to study let vs retein this setēce alwaies impressed in our mindes that as long as we shal conserue heare learn loue the pure doctrine of y● Gospel we shal be the house church of God as the sōne of God sayth If any loue me he wyll obserue my word and my father wyl loue him we wyll come to hym and make our abode with hym Let vs be allured with thys singular promyse to learne the heauenly doctrine let vs be throughly perswaded that mākinde ciuil gouernments are cōserued because of the church Let vs pōder this in our minde be encouraged with y● imortality y● is cōming to the whych God hath called vs who truely hath not in vayne manifested himself vnto vs by so many testimonies nor with out good respect sent hys sonne but tenderly loueth careth for suche as make accompt of his inestimable benefites I haue sayd ¶ A famous godly history contaynyng the liues and actes of Iohn Ecolampadius and Huldericke Zuinglius excellent Diuines set foorth by Wolfangus Faber Capito Simon Grineus and Oswaldus Miconius and Englyshed by Henry Bennet Callisian ¶ Anno. 1561. The last of Nouember ⸫ To the ryght honourable and his syngular good Lord the Lord Montioy hys humble Oratour Henry Bennet Callesian wysheth long lyfe with encrease of honour ⸫ THAT vertue and felicitye haue theyr begynnyng of laborious and daungerous attempts Demetrius the Pagan Philosopher abundantly declares For if blessed estate is accident to none but to such as fast and endure aduersity those that lyue in pleasure perpetual rest are estemed inglorious Epicures whō God neglectes iudgeth vnworthy to cōten●e wyth calamity How famous excellent were the auncient Greekes and victorious Romaines ryght honorable my syngular good Lord whose vertuous dedes notable exploictes not without great perils honorable death atchieued ●ystify to al posterity their incredible desyre as well to enlarge the ●●myts of theyr 〈…〉 and illustrate with victories their florishing publicke weales as also their intollerable paynes prudent consideracions to attaine to felicity by the ragged hyls sharpe thorny wayes whych lead to vertue Hercules worthely Prince of all Grecia what labors susteyned he What ougly Monsters dyd he ouercome and with what magnanimitye dyd he penetrate the gresly denne of Pl●toes ghastly kingdome By what other counsayle dyd Homexe ●udged of y● learned diuine set before our eyes wandring Vlisses as an absolute Image of wysdom tossed with many ●rksome trauayls but to signify thys to be the ready way to clyme to the palaice of al felicity and commendable vertue Such wer Epaminundas Alcibiades Phociō Alexander the great Cam●llus Scipio Paulus Aemilius Pompeius Augustus Brutus Cato Cicero no ●es ornamentes of their Country then expresse paternes of vertue These worthi personages as thei shined in glory and lyue in the learned monumentes of vertuous writers So y● infamous and in glorious Princes as Heliogabalus Sardanapalus Nero Caligula Cōmodus haue not onely eclipsed the bryght sunne of theyr honors by lasciuious liuing coward dread but obscurely lurke in the depe ●onge on of lothsome obliuion It is then apparēt that nothyng in this world can establish our seate in securiti but onely vertue the whych with incredyble trauayl is procured If these excellet Orators and Poetes haue celebrated the memory of these princes that onely endeuored to gratefy theyr Coūtry common weale What shal we worthe lye write in the commendacion of Iohn Ecolampadius and Huldericke Zuinglius who wyth theyr monumentes of diuine sapience haue confirmed our myndes in y● feare of God fed vs wyth Euange●ical foode and preached to vs y● doctrine of saluaciō I may iustly say they were not onely equiualent but also excelled y● other The one a man of such innocencye of lyfe so sincere in preachyng professyng the Gospell so readye to oppose hym self to al worldly daunger as no age can obliterate his memorye The other so magnanimous in thaduaūc● mēt of Christes glory and his blessed Gospell so willinglye bent to dye in quarel of y● right merites more praise then to be set fourth with foyle of my rude pen. Their liues are no lesse mirrours for vs vertuouslye to lyue then theyr blessed departures comfortable preparatiues teaching vs to dye godly Thus desirous to gratefy your honour wyth some token of my goodwyl I haue englished this history the which for mani your vertues goodli ornamēts I dedicate vnto your good Lordship Which vertues heauenly giftes your honour hath not of lats acquired but naturally are engraffed in your person Ther is none at thys present that ●auoreth of any learning but hath red the cōmendacion of your most noble Graundfather Wylliam Lord Montioy Who besides nobility of race was adorned with such piety good litterature as he excelled many noble men in England For albeit thys victorious Realme ▪ flourished at those daies with many learned instructors yet the excellency of his courage could not be contented vnles he wer taught of the famous incomparable Clark Erasmus of Roterdam by whose industry he was so aduaunced in letters of humanitye that not onely in hys natiue Country but in many

thys That thys my vehement rebuke may not agreue trouble thee O vertuous man vnderstād I touch thee not nor in thys matter I haue to do with thee Sometime he digressed from hys theame when matters interceadyng enforced hym too surcease hys begunne purpose But now the blessed happy tyme expired the soūdest and best part of the people embraced truth he discoursed in hys sermons against thynges lesse tollerable in the Church he condempned the priuate gaynes of Priestes suche as by priuate power abused the church whych moued the priestes and laity to omit no time of consultacion by what wyle or policies they myght entrap hym But of thys perhaps I wyl discourse more at large Now let vs returne to hys studies Emong so many laborius affaires he ceased not to read al approued Greeke authors as Homere Thucidides and Lucian that is more playne and easy Theocritus Hesiodus Aristophanes and other tyll he had redde and reuolued them all And for that hys studye required and Andrewe Boscheustyn learned in the Hebrue tounge was come to Zurick to professe the same Zuingglius was hys diligent Scholer who receyued foorth wyth a marueylous taste of thys tong And hauing obtained of the Senate the erection of a Colledge of good learnyng and the three tounges he solicited the same to send for Iames Cepor 〈…〉 us a yong man wel learned in those tounges to be a publicke professor there Vnder whom he determined to atchieue all that concerned the Greke Grammer Awhyle after by conference of the Seuenty and S. Ieromes translacion he tooke boldnes to expounde the text of Esay and Hieremy ryght excellent Prophetes accompanyenge hym selfe wyth Leo Iuda who had then studyed and trauayled in that knowledge and Felix Mantius who synce was defamed wyth the heresy● of the Anabaptistes He studyed continually stanoyng vp ryght and prescribed certayne houres to studye at whyche he neuer fayled if hee were not pressed wyth matters of importaunce From earlye morning tyl tenne of the clocke he applyed hym selfe to reade interpretate instruct write as tyme and occasion required After Dinner he attended to such as would conferre wyth hym in any matter or required counsell or he deuised and walked wyth hys friendes tyll twoo of the clocks at whych tyme he returned to hys studye After Supper he walked a lyttle whyle and then after he gaue himselfe to wryte letters the whyche sometymes he vsed tyll mydnyght Further if the Senate hadde neede of hym in any vrgent matter he was alwayes ready at theyr commaundement And nowe Agathye if it delyghte you to heare Zuinglius trauayles agaynst the enemyes of truth and the attemptes of wy●ye woorkers wee must deryue our dyscourse from a far ther and hygher begynnynge Albeit that Fraunces Lambert Friar obseruant of Anguiō whose name is wel knowen to the French Germayne nacion ought not to be enrolled among hys enemyes yet for that of the fyrst principal he broched this busynes agaynst Zuinglius he must not here be buryed in the vale of oblition He came to Zurick in hys Fryars weede disputed openly agaynst Zuinglius touching the intercession of Saints but I cannot tel who pricked hym if it were the truth or that he set but a face theron For after certen propositions he was contented to be reformed gaue thankes to God that he had reuealed the truth vnto hym so playnly by hys excellent Organe Awhyle after came Iohn Faber Martine Blanshe Preacher of T●ding addressed thyther by Hugo Byshop of Constaunce at the request of the inhabitauntes of Zurick And albeit as thei reported they had none other Commission thē to vnderstand the cause of the differentes and endeuour to pac●fy and end them Neuertheles occasion so offered matters so fallyng out they fell into question of the Gospel the intercession of saintes humaine constitucions and other thynges in such ●ort that they passed and consumed theyr whole iourney in disputacion herein and not wyth out emolument For al the assembly whych was about syxe hundred parsons considered wel how vyle frayl al worldly matters were respect of celestial thynges It sufficed not the Byshop to haue sent these foresayde parsons For anon after hys Suffragan came to Zuricke in deliberacion to perswade them to beleue the intercession of Sayntes the sacrifice o● the Masse The whych by hys booke published abroade and approued by many scholes he hath labored to confyrme But he lost tyme For a certen noble man of illustre famely magnanimous beyng demaunded what the Suffragan had gotten he aunswered The Vicar hath driuen away the Sow and we bryng the Pygges or as I mought sai the Suffragan hath beaten the bush and Zuinglius hath taken the Byrdes These thynges so happely fynished by y● singular goodnes of almyghtye God Zuinglius was enforced to set pen to the paper I wyl not here enterlace the Catalogue of hys bokes nor declare the vtinty of them considering they be published and beare sufficient wytnes of them selues I wyl briefely say thys there is a sounde doctrine iuigned wyth simplicity in them and I know not where any more efficacy or solid●tye maye be founde in anye mannes woorkes then in hys in myne opinion In thys hurly burly I cannot tel what aduertisment the Pope hadde hereof but incontinētly he addressed hys Ambassadour to vs and wrate hys Apostolicall letters or schedule the tenour wherof ensueth Adrian the Pope the syrte of thys name We●de●oned S●●●●e we grete thee well and sende ou● Apostolicall benediction We a●●●●sse oure reuerende Brother Enn●u● ▪ Byshoppe of Verules domesticall Prelecte oure Messenger and of oure Apostolicall Sea a prudent and faythfull member to repayre to the inuincible and most confederate nacion vnto vs an● our Apostolicall Sea to streate wyth the same of matters of importaunce and whych appertayne as well to the sayde Sea as to the whole estate of the Christian common weale Albeit wee haue enioyned hym to propone these thynges publickely yet beyng enfourmed of thy vertue and effectually embracing thy deuotion as hys whom we singularly credit and haue in speciall regarde We haue geuen expresse commaundement to the sayd Byshoppe our Messenger to delyuer vnto thee our letters apart and to aduertise thee of our good wyl towards the same We therefore exhort thy deuocion in our Lorde that thou credit him in all thynges and that thou haue in recōmendacion our affaires and the affayres of the Apostolicall Sea as we haue thyne honour aduauncement and profytte by thys meane thou shalt encurre our special grace and fauour Geuen at Rome at S. Peters sealed wyth the Fysshers Kyng 23. day of Ianuary 1523. The cause y● moued me to publishe this letter here is to testify y● if Zuinglius had bene more ambicious then he was sincere godli he might haue had preeminēt estate abundance of welth For not onelye the Pope wrate vnto hym but also to Fraunces Zuiggien to practise