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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 John Bradford.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Life and Death of John Bradford.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


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See how undaunted Bradford hath display'd
Truths golden Colours; nothing could invade
His heaven fild thoughts, but heaven, in whose just cause
He liv'd, though murther'd by Papistick lawes.
Relgion told him that his cause was good,
He need not feare to signe it with his blood
And seal it with his heart; Bradford agreed,
To signe, whilst Heaven was witnesse to the deed.
Insulting Papists, what can ye declare
But this, your foulnesse made our Bradford faire;
Your fire refin'd his heart, and made it prove
A perfect lover of the God of love.