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Mirrovr of new reformation

wherein reformers, by their owne acknowledgement, are represented ad viuum. The beauty also of their handy-worke is displayed

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XIV. VPON BVCER.

Bvcer , as

I doe not absolutely affirme this, though it is without question true, by reason of my vndertaken course to proue al by the sayings of Protestants; and for this I haue not as yet found the testimony of any of them. But it is reported by that temperate writer Vlenberg. in his causæ, causa 12.

some affirme, was first a Iew;

But doubting that, his mind he did imbew
With Christian rites, and, vpon iust dislike
Of Iudaisme, became a

That he was a Catholike, it is affirmed both by Osiand. Epist. cent. Ib. p. 88. and al others that write of him.

Catholike;

Yet stayd not there, but soon did that reiect
For

See Peter Martyr in his treatise of the Lords supper annexed to his comm. places in English. pag. 138.

Luther's, then new rays'd, licencious Sect.

Yet that he held not long, but chang'd againe,
And vowd himself a perfect

See Bucer himself in Epist. ad Noremb. and Esseingenses.

Zuinglian.

From hence he back to

See the acts of the Synod holden at Luther's house in Wittemberg anno 1536. & Osiand. Epist. cent. 16. pag. 246. Schlusselb. Theol. Caluin. l. 2. fol. 17. & 129. Lauath. hist. Sacr. p. 1. Mart. Crusius p. 3. Annal. Sur. l. 11. c. 25.

Luther made repaire;

And there, for his offence, by humble prayer

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He

Bucer in edit. 1. comment. in 6. loan. & 26. Math. asked pardon of God and the Church, for his hauing bewitched many with the heresy of Zuinglius.

pardon crau'd: but this he soon forgot,

And straight resum'd his former

Lauath. hist. Sacr. f. 37. Pet . Mart. of the Lord's supper, annexed to his comm. places in English. p. 138. & Schlusselb. theol. Caluin. l. 2. fol. 17. & 70. where he sayth: Yet the same Bucer at Cambridge in England an. 1551. reuolted againe to the heresy of the Zuinglians.

Zuinglian's coat

Nor want there

See before at 1. Yet it is affirmed by Posseuine in not. verbi Dei, & Vlembergius, Causa 12.

some, who dare auerre for true,

That, after this, he dy'd, as first, a Iew.
Who'l not admire this man? sure he doth misse it,
Who his Religion cannot like, what is it?