A History of the Martin Marprelate Controversy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Issues 1-3

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W. Pickering, 1845 - Marprelate controversy - 224 pages

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Page 101 - No more of that :— I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 12 - Oh read ouer D. JOHN BRIDGES, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume, written against the Puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipful! a prieste, JOHN BRIDGES, Presbyter, Priest or Elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum.
Page 61 - ... every person under the degree of a bishop, which doth or shall pretend to be a priest or minister of God's Holy Word and Sacraments, by reason of any other form of institution, consecration, or ordering, than the form set forth by parliament in the time of the late King of most worthy memory, King Edward the Sixth, or now used in the reign of our most gracious sovereign lady...
Page 13 - Divillitie, and Deane of Sarum. Wherein the arguments of the puritans are wisely prevented, that when they come to answere M. Doctor, they must needes say something that hath bene spoken.
Page 90 - Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Page 90 - ... things as distant as things may be. Two principal causes have I ever known of atheism ; curious controversies, and profane scoffing: now that these two are joined in one, no doubt that sect will make no small progression. And here I do much esteem the wisdom and religion of that bishop which replied to the first pamphlet of this kind, who remembered that a fool was to be answered, but not by becoming like unto him ; and considered the matter which he handled, and not the person with whom he dealt.
Page 58 - INTO ENGLISH, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same; diligently conferred with the Greeke and other Editions in diuers languages...
Page 63 - Mr. W. Whittingham, unto the office of preaching the word of God and ministering the sacraments ; and he was admitted minister, and so published, with such other ceremonies as here are used and accustomed...
Page 19 - Rimarum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle Reader) you catch not the hicket with laughing. Imprinted at a Place, not farre from a Place, by the Assignes of Signior Some-body and are to be sold at his shoppe in Troubleknaue Street, at the signe of the Standish.
Page 20 - Martins Months minde, that is, A certaine report, and true description of the Death, and Funeralls, of olde Martin Marreprelate, the great makebate of England and father of the Factious. Contayning the cause of his death, the manner of his buriall, and the right copies both of his Will, and of such Epitaphs, as by sundrie his dearest friends, and other of his well willers, were framed for him.

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