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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 Justus Jonas, who dyed Anno Christi 1555.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The life and Death of Justus Jonas, who dyed Anno Christi 1555.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


166

Justius by name, no poyson sure could kill,
God so protected him, from what was ill:
The venome of the Plague did seeme to be
No poyson unto him, for he scapd free;
Although the Duyon he by chance did eat,
That poyson'd was, by the Plagues strong heat;
Nor was his body, but his minde as free
From the contagion of hels leprosie.

167

For all his study was, how to obtaine
That happy treasure, whereby he might gaine
Heaven at the last; and sure unto that place
He's long since gone; who was his Countries grace.