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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

beyng sore abashed in one disputacion of thys doctrine because he gaue attentiue eare therevnto he was sodēly forced to remoue into a nygh Chamber ther resting on his bed he medled reported ofte this sentence God hath shut vp al vnder our vnbelief to the end he might extende mercye to all These abashmentes encreased after but thē most asperously he felt thē whē he lost hys deare friende companion who was stayne I know not by what mishap Then penurye pricked hym not to this Monkerye but the affection he had to learne to serue God Albeit he learned ther the doctrine vsed in scholes he red the Doctors of sentences and in publick disputacions distinctly expressed the difficulties which other could not vnfold whereat many mused Neuertheles for y● he sought not in this kinde of lyfe to wyn brute according to the vertu of his wit but to norish him in the feare of God he vsed these studies as one that esteemed not to be principall of that he searched and easelye conceyued those scholastical Methodes In the meane season he redde with great affection the fountaines of heauenly doctrine that is the Prophetes and Apostles therby to frame hys lyfe and conuersacion to the wyll of God and so be continued in the feare faith of God as by manye thynges it was apparent Yea howe muche the more earnestly he coueted thys exercise or holy contemplacion so muche the more he was troubled wyth his dolour and abashment He declared he was manye tymes confyrmed by conference with an old man in the Couent of Augustines at Erphord And impartyng hym wyth hys tremblyng feares he learned many thynges touchyng fayth and also told vs he reasoned wyth hym of that Article of the Simbole whych is I beleue the remission of synnes He expressed vnto Luther thys Article in thys sort We may not generally beleue onelye that synnes are or haue bene remitted to some as the Deuils beleue they were forgeuen Peter or Dauid but that Gods expresse commaundement is that euerye man should beleue particularly his sinnes are forgeuen And further he sayd that thys interpretacion was confyrmed by the testimonies of Saynt Bernard he had shewed hym the place in the Sermon of the Annunciacion where it is thus set foorth But adde that thou beleuest this y● by hym thy synnes are forgeuen the. This is the testimony that the holy Ghost giueth thee in thy hart saying Thy syns are forgiuen thee For this is the opinion of the Apostle that man is freely iustified by fayth Luther sayd he was not onely strēgthened by these wordes but the he was also instructed of the ful meaning of saint Paule who repeateth so many times this sentence We are iustified by fayth And hauing read the exposicions of many vpon this place he thē perceued as wel by the purpose of the olde man as by the comfort he receyued in his spirite the vanity of those interpretaciōs which he had besydes him And reading by little and lyttle with conferring the sayinges and examples of Prophetes and Apostles continual inuocacion of God and excitacion of fayth by force of prayers he perceiued that doctrine more euidently Then he began to reade S. Austens bookes where he found many goodly sentences among other in the exposicion of the Psalmes and in the booke of the Spirite and the Letter which cōfirmed this doctrine of faith consolacion that was illumined in his hart And yet he laid not a side the Sētenciaries He could recite by rote word by word Gabriel and Cameracensis He red long tyme the bookes of Occan preferred his subtiltie aboue Thomas Aquin and Scotus He red also and reuolued Gersō but aboue al the rest he red and perused al ouer Saynt Austens workes and committed them to perfect memory And thus he beganne diligentlye to studye at Erphord where he continued foure yeares in the Couent of Augustines About this tyme one Staupicius a famous wyght who ministred hys helpe to furder the erection of an Vniuersity in Vitteberge endeuoured also to haue Schooles of Diuinitye founded in thys newe Vniuersitye When he had considered the Spirite and erudition of Luther he called hym from Erphord to place hym in Vitteberg in the yeare 1508. and of hys age .xxvi. There hys towardnes appeared in the ordinarye exercise of Schoole and predication And as it happened that manye wyse and learned men attentiuely heard Luther namely the Doctor Meller●●ad The sayd Mellerstad woulde often tymes say Luther was of suche a marueylous spirite and so ingenious that he gaue apparent significacion at one tyme or other he woulde introduce a more compendious facile and familiar maner of teaching and alter and abolyshe the order that then was vsed There fyrst he expounded the dialectique and Phisique of Aristotle and in the meane whyle intermitted no whyt hys studye in Theologye Three yeres after he went to Rome about the differences of the Monkes and returnynge the same yeare hee was graded Doctor at the expences of Elector Fridericke Duke of Saxdnye accordyng to the solempne maner of Schooles For he had heard him preach wel vnderstanded the quicknes of his spirit diligently considered the vehemency of his wordes and had in singular admiracion those profounde matters which in his Sermons he luculently and exactly exposed And that al me● maye perceiue the degree of Docto● was geuen hym by precipitacion o● iudgement it is wel knowen he was then but thirty yeare old He declare● that Staupicius against his wyll enforced him to take that degre saying merely vnto him that God had man● thinges to bring to perfection in hy● Churche wherein he would employ● Luther And thoughe these woorde were spoken merely yet it came so t● passe anon after as manye predict●ons or presages proue true before chaunge After this he began to expound th● Epistle to the Romains consequētly the Psalmes But howe he declared them so diuinely that it semed i● the iudgement of al faythfull learned men he was a shyning lyght ● bright Phebus that began to clea● after a long cloudy and obscure sky● Ther he shewed the differēce betwixt the law and the Gospel He also confounded the errour that raygned then in schooles and Sermons the whych errour taught that men merite remission of synnes by their proper woorkes and that they be iust before God by outward discipline as the Phariseis taught Luther diligentlye reduced the myndes of men to the Sonne of God And as Iohn Baptist demonstrated the Lambe of God that tooke away the synnes of the worlde euen so Luther expressely shewed that sins are freely remitted for the loue of the Sonne of God and that we oughte faithfully to embrace this bountefull gift He also illustrated diu●●s other pointes of ecclesiastical doctrine These happye begynnynges of so good matters got him great authority considering his lyfe was correspōdent to hys profession and it plainly appeared his woordes

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

remembraunce of hys doctrine I weye litle the braid sclaunder of the Epicures and Hipocrites who scoffe and condempne the manifest truth But I stay wholy here vpon that the vniuersal Churche hath consented perpetuallye to thys very doctrine which is preached in our Church where vnto we must frame our lyfe and deuocion conformable And I beleue that this is the doctrine wherof the sonne of God speaketh If any loue me he wyll keepe my commaundementes and my father wyll loue him and we wyll come to hym and plant our dwelling with hym I speake of the somme of the doctrine as it is vnderstāded and explaned in our Churches by the faithfull learned Ministers For al be it that some one often times expoundeth the same more aptly and elegantly then some other yet as touching the effect the learned and faithful doo agree in all poyntes Then weying perpending with my selfe long tyme the doctrine that hath bene of al tymes it semeth vnto me that since the Apostles there haue bene foure notable alteracions after the first purity of y● Gospel Origene had his tyme. Al be it there wer some of a sound and sacred opinion as Methodius who reproued the furies and ●otages of Origene yet he cōuerted the Gospell into Philosophye in the hartes of many that is to saye he aduaunced this perswasion that one meane discipline of reason deserueth remission of synnes and that thys is that iustice wherof is sayd The iust shall lyue of his fayth That age almost lost the whole difference of the Law and the Gospel and forgat the words of the Apostles For they vnder stoode not the naturall significacion of these wordes Letter Spirite Iustice Fayth Now when the proprietye of wordes was ●o●t whych be notes of the very thinges it was necessary that other thinges should be contriued Out of this seede sprang Pedagius error which wandred largely abrod And therfore al be it the Apostles had geuen vnto y● Church a pure doctrine as cleare salutiferous foūtaines yet Origene medled the same wyth muche ordure and impuritye Then to correct the errors of that tyme or at the least some part of the. God raised S. Austen who repurged an some part the fountaynes and I doubt not if he were iudge of dissencions at this day but he wold speake for vs defend our cause Certenly as concerning free remission iustificacion by faith the vse of the Sacramentes and indifferent thynges he consenteth wholy wyth vs. And albeit that in some places he exp●undeth more eloquently and aptly that he wyl say than in some yet yf in readyng any do cary wyth them a godly spirite and quycke ▪ vnderstandyng and al euil iudgement ceaseth they shall soone perceyne he is of our opinion And where as our aduersaries sometime do cite sentences selected out of his bookes agaynst vs and wyth clamour prouoke vs to the auncient Fathers they do it not for any affection they beare vnto the truth or antiquity but maliciously to cloke them wyth the authority of the auncient fathers in the presence of their Idols whych antiquity neuer knewe of any these horned beastes dombe Idols as we haue knowen in these dayes Neuertheles it is certain ther wer● see●es of supersticion in the tyme of the Fathers and auncient Doctors therefore S. Austen ordeyned some thyng of vowes although he wrote not therof so straungely as other for soth y● best some tymes shal be spotted wyth the blemysh of the follyes that reygne in theyr age For as naturally we loue our Country so fondly we fauour the present fashions wher in we be trained educated And very wel alludeth Euripides to thys What customes ●e in tender youth by Natures lore receaue The same we loue lyke alwayes and lothe our ●ust to leaue But would to God y● such as vaunt they follow S. Austen wold alwaies represent one lyke opinion mynoe as S. Austen Certaynly they would not clyppe and mutilate hys sentences to serue their purpose And the lyght restored by S. Austēs workes hath much profited posterity For Prosper Maximus Hugo and some other lyke that gouerned studies to S. Bernardes tyme haue for the most part imitated the rule of S. Austen And this whyle styl the regiment and rytches of the Bishops encreased and therof ensued a mo●e thē gigantal or monstrous raygne prophane and ignoraunt men gouerned the Churche among the whych certayne were enstructed in sciences and practises of the Romayne Courte and some other exercised in pleadynges Then the orders of Dominicke and S. Fraunces Friers began who beholding the excesse and ritches of the Byshops contempnyng their vngodly maners determined to lyue in more modest order or as I myght say to enclose them in the prisons of discipline but first ignoraunce encreased the supersticions Then after when they considered mens myndes wholy addicted to the study of y● ciuil lawes for that pleading at Rome aduaūced many to great authority enrytched them they endeuoured to reuoke men to the study of Diuinity but they missed of their purpose and theyr counsayl fayled them Albert and his semblables that wer geuen to Aristotles doctrine beganne to conuert the doctrine of the Churche into prophane Philosophy And the fourth age not onelye fylled with ordure the fountaines of the Gospell but vomited poyson to say opinions manifestly approuyng all idolatries Thomas Aquin Scotus and their lyke haue brought in so manye labyrinthes false opinions that ▪ the godly sound sort of deuines haue alway desired a more plain and purer kinde of doctrine Neither can we deny without great impudencye but it was expedient to alter this kind of doctrine when it is manyfest that such as employed theyr whole age in this maner of teaching vnderstoode not the great part of the Sophismes in theyr Disputacions Further it is playne Idolatry confirmed when they teache the applicacions of sacrifice by woorke wrought when they allowe the inuocation of Images when they deny that synnes be freelye remitted by fayth when of ceremonies they make a slaughter of consciences Finally there are many other horryble and pernicious deuises that when I thynke of theym Lorde howe I tremble and quake of feare Let vs render thankes vnto God the eternall Father of our Lorde Iesus Christe who hath pleased by the Ministerye of Diuine and godly Luther too purifye the Euangelicall fountaynes of all ordure and papistical infection and restore siucere doctrine to the Church wherof minding euermore we maye conioyne our lamentable peticions and with zeious affection besech God to cō●●rine that he hath atchieued in vs for hys holye Temples sake Th●s is thy voice and prom●se lyu●ng and iust God eternal father of our Lord Iesus Christ creator of a● thinges and of the Church I wyll haue compassion on you for my names sake I wyll doo it for my se●●e yea truelye for my selfe that I be not blasphe●ed I beseche

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