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 Deth of John Wicklief.
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John Wicklief, justly might Compare;
For Learning, Life, and solid Witt,
And many Works he rarely Writt;
Contending stoutly, 'gainst Romes Errours,
Nere daunted by their threats or terrours;
But, to his death, still, fought faiths fight,
And thus went out this Lamp of Light.
But, being dead, Rome did so rave,
'Gainst this Faiths Champion, that from 's grave,
They digged-up his Bones, with ire,
And burnt (as Hereticks) in fire.
Thus was Romes Folly, Rage, exprest,
To burn dead Bones, of Soules, at rest.
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