Abel redevivus or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller] |
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The Life and Death of John Bale.
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Twlve years he serv'd the Babilonian with;
Drank of her cup and wallowed in her ditch,
Untill the sunshine of diviner Truth
Shot saving Beames into his hopefull youth:
And led him thence to serve another Saint
Whose mirth was teares, whose freedom was restraint;
Whose progresse was a banishment; whose food
Was want and Famine, and whose drinke was blood:
His dayes were full of troubles, and his nights
Were sad exchanges stor'd with feares and frights:
His wealth was Poverty, his peace was strife,
His life was death: His death eternall life.
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