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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

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