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 Frith, who suffered Martyrdome, 1533.
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The life and death of John Frith, who suffered Martyrdome, 1533.
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Heaven (to his honour, and eternall praise)
Hath never left his Church, yet destitute
Of faithfull Witnesses, both to dispute,
And dye, too, for his spotlesse Uerity,
(If cal'd therto) with all Sencerity,
And admirale fortitude of minde;
In which rare Role of Martyers we do finde
Famous John Frith, an English man by nature;
Who, from his youth, adorn'd his education
With promptitude of wit, and other parts,
Wherby he flourisht both in Tongus and Arts.
And to conclude let all rejoyce and say,
Religion was Friths prop, and he her stay.
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