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] |
The Life and Death of Caralostadius who died Anno Christi 1541.
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The Life and Death of Caralostadius who died Anno Christi 1541.
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More for the Churches good, then his owne gaines;
Yet were his gaines as great as his desire,
He that obtaines true vertue need require
No greater profit, he that studies how
To live here-after, must not set his brow
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Prov'd this grave Fathers sorrow, not his mirth;
His thoughts were all divine, he could not hide
Within his Season'd breast, the flames of pride;
He was an Image-hater, and would not
Let them be worshipp'd and his God forgot;
'Twas not a Prison could his heart apale,
He that has virtue, needs no other baile.
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