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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

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 no lyppe labour but proceded from the verye hart Thys admiracion of his holye lyfe much inflected and allured the hartes of his Auditours and therfore many notable personages familiarly knowing hym and seing him innouate the vsuall Ceremonies resisted hym nothing but in respect of the authority he procured before as wel for that he reueled many good matters as that his lyfe was holye consented wyth him in his opinions with the which they saw the world deuided diuersly and therfore were pensine and very sore greued At thys tyme Luther altered nothing in the ceremonies but precisely obserued hys rule among hys fellowes he medled no doubtful opinions but expressed thys common doctrine as principallest of all other in familiar maner to all men elucidating the same more and more to say the doctrine of repentaunce of remission of synnes of fayth of true comfort in times of aduersity Euery mā receiued good taste of this swete doctrine and the learned conceiued high pleasure to behold Iesus Christ the Prophetes and Apostles come foorth into lyght out of darkenes pryson and other ordures to vnderstand the difference betwyxt the lawe and the Gospell betwyxt the promises of the Law and the promise of the Gospel betwixt spirituall Iustice and ciuill thynges whych certainlye could not haue bene found in Thomas Aquin Scotus nor hys semblables He considered this also that many were instigated solicited by Erasmus learned woorkes to studye the Greeke and Latine tonges who perceiuing a more gentle ready order of teaching the before began to haue in contempt the Monkes barbarous and sophistical doctrine and specially suche as were of a gentle nature good disposicion Luther began to study the Greke and Hebrue tonges to thys ende that after he had learned the phrase propriety of the tonges drawen the doctrine out of the very fountaynes he myghte geue more sound iudgement Whilest Luther was in this course of study a certaine Dominicke Friernanied Tecel a most impudent Sicophant if euer there raygned any caused the Popes Indulgences or Pardons to he caryed and sold about the Country Luther much moued wyth the blasphemous sermons this shameles Friar preached and hauyng hys hart earnestly bent wyth ardent desyre to mayntaine true religion published certain proposicions of Indulgences whych are in the fyrst Tome of hys woorkes and fixed them openlye on the Temple that ioyneth to the Castell of Vitteberg the morrowe after the feast of all Saynctes the yeare 1517. Thys beggarlye Friar alwayes lyke vnto hym selfe hopyng to obtayne the Popes blessynge assembled certayne Monkes and Deuines meanelye seene in Sophistry in hys Couent and foorth wyth commaunded them to wryte something against Luther And whylest he would not seeme to be dombe he beganne not onelye to inueye in hys Sermons but to thunder agaynst Luther and balking out hys Asinine brayde cryed Luther is an hereticke and worthye to be persecuted wyth the fyre and besydes thys he burned openlye Luthers propositions and the Sermon he wrote of Indulgences Thys rage and heliyshe fury of thys bagge bearer Friar Tecel enforced Luther to treate more amply of thinges and to mayntaine the truth Beholde what were the begynnynges of thys controuersye wherein Luther neyther suspecting ne dreamyng of anye chaunge that myghte happen in the ceremonyes dyd not vtterly reiect the Indulgences but required a moderacion in them And therefore they falselye accuse hym that blase he beganne wyth plawsible matter and whereby he myghte get prayse to the ende in processe of tyme he myght chaunge the state of the Common weale and purchase authoritye eyther for him selfe or other And sure hee was not suborned or sturred by Courtiers as the Duke of Brunswike wrote that the Duke Fredericke was sore effended that suche contencion and controuersye should aryse hauyng regarde to the sequele thereof that all be it thys begynnyng proceeded fauourablye yet the flame by lyttle and lyttle kyndeled woulde haue spreadde further as Homere maketh mencion of Fame ¶ Fame is an euil then the whych no swyfter can be found For she doth florysh with her chaunge and getteth force by groun● ¶ Smal with first dred then large the growes lifts her in y● aire Thus to Iones seat through cloudes skies she blasting doth repaire And as this good Duke Frederick was one of al the princes of our time that loued best quiet common tranquillity neither was aua●icious but wyllyngly bent to referre al his counsels to the common vtilitye of all the world as it is easy to be coniected diuers waies so he neither encouraged nor fauoured Luther but often represented semblant of heauines and sorrow whych he bare in hys hart fearyng greater dissencions But as he was wyse and followed not onelye prophane iudgementes whych cōmaund the tender springes of ●● chaunges to be sodeinly oppressed so takyng in counsayl the diuine rule and wel deliberating therupon whyche enioyneth obedience to the Gospell and forbyddeth to resist the tryed truth and termeth it a blasphemy horribly cōdempned of God partinaciously to repugne the truth He dyd that many wyse and godly wold haue done he obeyed God leauyng vnto hym hys diuine power he redde diligently that that was writen and he would not abolysh that he iudged to be sincere and true I know very wel he made inquisicion often tymes what wer the wise and learned mēs opinions touchyng these thinges I knowe he gently besought Erasmus in that assemblye whych Themperour Charles the fift made in the City of Colein after his Coronacion freely to tell hym hys opinion if Luther had erred in those differences wherof he principally entreateth Then Erasmus sayde that Luthers opinion was good but that he desired moderation of style in him Wherof Duke Frederick wrot after greuously to Luther exhortyng hym to temper the vehemency of his style It is also apparēt that Luther promised y● Cardinal Caietanus to kepe silence prouided also his aduersaries would do the lyke Whereby we may gather that at that time he determined not to sturre any newe debates but rather coueted the cōmon quiet and that he was prouoked by litle lytle to other matters throughe the excitacion of vnlearned writers Then followed disputacions of differēce betwixt diuine humain law of the horrible prophanacion of y● supper of our Lord in selling applieng the same for other purposes Here he was forced to expres the cause of the sacrifice to declare the vse of the sacramentes Now the godly faithful Christians closed in Monasteries vnderstanding Images ought to be eschewed began to abandō y● wretched thraldom in which thei wer deteined Now Luther y● plainlier to expres the doctrine of repentaunce of remission of syns of faith of indulgēces he added these matters The differēce of diuine humain lawes y● doctrine of the vse of our Lords supper of baptisme of vowes and these were hys principal conflictes As touching the question of the Romain Bishops

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

foraine regions hys glory and fame eternally shineth Suche is the mutual loue of learned men to consecrate one another in their lucubrations to immortalitye And to passe in silence many other his vertues I wil approch nigher Your honorable father Charles lord Montioy folowing the lyuely steps of his father was instructed of the notable learned man Andrew Hyperius a Germain Who not onely in tyme of peace was diligently incūbent t● good studies furdered good learnyng but in the late famous warre a●●iege of Boloigne shewed his magnanimity inuincible courage wher death enuying his glori claimed her iust debt of him not without the lamentable griefe and in credible sorow of a great mani Your honor degenerateth nothing frō their lawdable steppes entertayning with lyke zealous affection Heliseus Bomelius a Germain who readeth vnto your honour the liberal sciences whom Phillip Melancthon hath in familiar letters praysed highly for erudicion godlynes Albeit hys learned workes published geue due testimony therof I pretermit many other your worthy vertues which iustly to set forth I leaue to such as with greater vessels cā more aptly wade in this sea Ouely I wil end with your piety which is so great y● you cānot bear with any ●ice that mai offend God in your honorable house your vnstayed hand to relieue their wantes whom you thynke woorthye to receaue your rewardes your zeale towardes true religion which many to your syngular prayse pronounce In sort y● when the Patrons of Christian religion ar celebrated with iust encomys among men your honor is not ▪ vnremēbred Thus hūbly desiring your good lordship to beare with the rudenes of my trāslacion I commit the same the most vertuous Lady your honorable wife to the tuicion of the holy Ghost ¶ At London the last of Nouember 1561. your honors most humble H. B The historye of the Lyfe of Iohn Ecolampadius setfoorth by Wolfangus Faber Capito ⸫ ¶ To the Christian Reader I Wyshe thee fauourable Reader to encrease in y● knowledge vnderstandyng of our Lord Iesus Christ raignyng in glory Our friende Simon Grineus as well floorishyng in eloquence and ornate style as learned in sacred knowledge and sence of y● scrip tures hath by hys letters faythfullye signified vnto vs the true decease of the very organe of Christ my welbeloued brother Iohn Ecolampadius The whych information two Counsellers of Basile mē of syngular grauity and good fame haue wyth theyr aduertisment verified to be true who expressed in suche maner vnto vs the woordes and gesture of the deceased that me semed I beheld and heard the lyuely woordes he pronounced at the point of death These Counsellers were euer present with the Ministers so long as occasion spared them from publike affaires and specially when he was ready to geue place to nature ▪ They enfourmed he intermitted no time whyle he was sycke to cōmende the sincere doctrine of fayth peace mutual loue and diligent care of the Churches to hys brethren wherof al hys life studious then he was y● more earnestly moued yea enflamed when hys sycknes was most impacient and do●orous Pondering also with hymself what occasion of contencion and diseord the enemy wold minister to y● selected Christian flocke destitute of the goueruaunce assistence of theyr true Pastor And fullye I resolue hys prayers auayled muche for that after hys departure his Successor in moste sharpest time of seuerity persecutiō gouerned the sterne ryghtlye was not displaced in sorte that the poore Christiās sequestring them selues for a tyme dispersed abroad in the end assembled in lyke order as in fewe yeres before established their Church and abode Our part is to render harty thanks to the ramous and learned man Simon Grineus who with compendious clegancy and syngular erudicion hath deseriued the decease of thys godlye man by whose example we haue perfecte president to learne howe to behaue our selues at the latter houre The rest of Ecolampadius lyfe is no lesse myrrour whych Grineus hath required me fullye to setfoorth Aprou●nce I confesse farre passyng my power especially in thys miserable and croked age also skyl if any wer at al wyth tract of yeares lothsome sycknes and daylye exercise empayred and decayed And certes I could none other then encurre worthy note of ingratitude if the glory of Christ whych shined in thys holy man if thy desyre fauorable Reader proceding of a zelous affection finally if Grineus earnest request a man of approued learnyng and god lynes moued me not to descriue the hystorye of Ecolampadius lyfe and comprise in fewe woordes those matters whych I perfectlye vnderstande Thou shalt therefore heare of me the very trouth and no pay 〈…〉 historye barrayne of eloquence and phrases the truth I repea●e will knowen to many credible persons fra●●ng ●rast if I should disclose doubtful matters and which I could not warrant to deserue worthely 〈…〉 and staine of credit Attend therefore to this briefe discours● of Ecolampadius life from the begynnyng to the ●at●er end Ecolampadius was borne in Germany in the yere of our Lord. 14●2 in a lytie Village called Viesperg in that Territory which the auncient latins called Cherusci ●ys Parentes according to the Country very rich hys Mother much renowmed for her integrity of lyfe and holynes Who for her liberality towards the poore and good nature was well regarded and reported among her neighbours And when God had refte them of all their Children sauyng thys they endeuoured with al sedulity diligence to haue hym instructed and from the very brest nourished in learnyng and godlye feare Beyng growen somewhat elder his Father determined to make hym a Marchaunt but hys Mother procured longer exhibition for hys continue in study When he learned hys ru 〈…〉 me●ts beyng very yong he represented such a tokē of towardnes that all those that knewe hym ma●ueyled much thereat for y● Lorde ripened hym the ry●e●●er y● he might employe hym in hys seruice Whych was the cause hys Father eyther ouercome with hys Wyues prayer or wonne wyth the towardnes of the Childe foreced for no charges After he had tasted the first foundacions of learning his Father sent him to Helteprune Heidelberge to aduaunce hym to the study of the liberall sciences There he profited so wel that at the .xii. yeare of hys age he wrate cōmendable Verses and wythin twoo yeares after he obtained the degree of Bacheler as they terme it And thys whyle be fructified no lesse in y● feare of God and innocency of lyfe then in g●od litterature Being graded Maister of Arte he went to Boloigne in Italy according to his fathers mind to study the Ciuil law vnder a Reader therof for hys excellencye in that knowledge muche renowmed But wythin one halfe yeare after he was forced to returne as well for the ayre of Italy which he could not brooke as for the fraudulency of a Marchant vnto whom hys father had