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 Brentius, who dyed Anno Christi 1570.
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The Life and Death of John Brentius, who dyed Anno Christi 1570.
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From place, to place, his courage never fail'd;
But with resolved Constancy, he bent
His minde to suffer, free from discontent:
The rage of Papists could not make him yeeld
To their desires; True vertue was his shield;
The strength of his afflictions added strength
Unto his soul, his suffrings had no length
Except of dayes, and them he knew to be
But servile Subjects to Mortality:
Thus like a patient sufferer he fled
From earth, to heaven, and there repos'd his head.
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