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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 Hugh Latimer.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Life and Death of Hugh Latimer.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


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Though Latimer was in his heedlesse youth
A diviator, and abandon'd truth,
Yet (heaven having blest him with a riper age)
At last he banish'd his too forward rage,
And from a wandring Commet, he became
A blazing starre, and blush'd not to proclaime
Against his former Errours which had spread
Upon his heart, and almost struck it dead.

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He sought the way of truth, and seeking, found
A better Anchor, and a firmer ground
Where on he fixt his thoughts, and would not be
Remov'd by arguments or Tyrannie.
Thus our brave Latimer became a terrour
To Papists, and an enemy to errour,
Though he at first most wilfully deny'd
The truth, yet for the truth at last he dy'd.