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love_n	death_n	heart_n	soul_n	3,734	5	4.4869	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17087	A briefe treatise concerning the burnynge of Bucer and Phagius, at Cambrydge, in the tyme of Quene Mary with theyr restitution in the time of our moste gracious souerayne lady that nowe is. Wherein is expressed the fantasticall and tirannous dealynges ofthe [sic] Romishe Church, togither with the godly and modest regime[n]t of the true Christian Church, most slaunderouslye diffamed in those dayes of heresye. Translated into Englyshe by Arthur Goldyng. Anno. 1562. Read and iudge indifferently accordinge to the rule of Gods worde.; Historia vera: de vita, obitu, sepultura, accusatione haereseos, condemnatione, exhumatione, combustione, honorificaque tandem restitutione beatorum atque doctiss. theologorum, D. Martini Buceri et Pauli Fagii. English. Selections.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1562 (1562)	STC 3966; ESTC S106051	49,264	190

whiche there was no man but that set vp some Uerses as witnesses of his iust and vnfained sorowe vpon the walles of the church That neyther at that time anye reuerence or duetye whych is due to the dead departinge oute of this life was then duers●ipped or nowe remayneth vndone that maye seeme to partayne eyther to the celebratyng of the memoriall of so holy or famous a person or to the consecratinge of him to euerlastinge memorye We at that time sawe wyth our eyes this Uniuersitye flouryshinge by his institucions the loue of sincere religion not onelye engendered but also confirmed strengthened through his continuall and daylye preachinge In so much that at suche time as he was sodaynly taken from vs there was scarce anye man that for sorowe could finde in his hearte to beare with the presente estate of thys lyfe but that eyther he wyshed with all his heart to departe oute of thys lyfe with Bucer into another and by dieng to folowe him into to immortalitye or els endeuored him selfe with wepinge and sighing to call him againe being dispatched of all troubles into y e prison of this bodye oute of the which he is escaped lest he shold leaue vs as it were standinge in battel ray without a captaine he hī selfe as one casshed depart with his wages or as one dyscharged out of y e campe w tdraw him selfe to the euerlasting quietnesse tranquility of the soule Therfore al men euidently declared at that time both howe sore they tooke his death to hearte and also how hardly they could away with the misture of such a man As long as the ardent loue of his religion wherw t we wer inflamed flourished it wrought in our hartes an incredible desire of his presence amorvs But after the time y t the godlye mā ceased to be any more in our sight and in our eyes y e ardent burning loue of religion by litle litle waxed cold in our mindes according to the times y t came after which were both miserable to our vtter vndoing it began not by litle litle to be darkened but it altogither vanished away and turned into nothing For we fel againe into the troublesomnesse of the popishe doctrine the old rites customes of the romishe churche were restored againe not the garnishment beatifiyng of the Christen religion as they surmised but to thutter defacing violating and defiling of the same Death was sette before the eyes of suche as perseuered in the christē doctrine that they had learned before They were banished the relame that could not apply them selues to the time and do as other men did such as remained were enforced eyther to dissemble or to hide theym selues and crepe into corners or els by drinkinge as it wer of y e charmed cup of Circes to be turned and altered not onelye from the nature of man into the nature of brute beastes but that farre worse and much more monstruous is from the likenesse of God and his Aungels into the likenesse of deuels And all England was infected with this maladye But I wold to God the corruption of those tymes whyche ouerwhelmed all the whole realme had not at least wise yet perced euery parte member thereof Of the which there was not one but that besides the griefe that it felte with the residew of the bodye by reason of the sickenesse and contagion spred into the whole had some sorowe and calamitye peculiarly by it selfe And to omit the rest of the which to entreat this place is not appoynted nor the time requireth oughte to be spoken this dwellinge place of the Muses which we cal thuniuersity may be a sufficient witnesse what we may iudge of all the rest of the bodye For certesse my brethren the thinge is not to be dissembled that can not be hidden We applying our selues to those most filthy times haue moste shamefullye yelded lyke fayntharted cowardes whyche had not the stomacks to susteyn thaduersities of pouerty banishment and death Which in oure liuing conuersacion kept neyther the constancie taughte vs vs by Philosophye nor yet the patience taught vs by holy scripture whych haue done all thinges at the commaundement of others And therfore that which the Poete althoughe in another sence hath trimly spoken maye well de thoughte to haue bene truly prophecied vpon vs. The times and seasons changed be And changed in the same are we Diuers of them that were of a pure sincere iudgemēt as cōcerning religion being driuē frō hence distroubled the rest that remayned tasted and felte of the inhumanitie of theym in whose handes thautoritie of doing thinges here consisted Although to say y e truth I haue vsed a gētler terme thā behoued For it is not to be accōpted inhumanitye but rather immanitie beastly crueltye the which when they had spent al kindes of torments and punishementes vpon the quyck when they had cruelly taken frō such as cōstantly perseuered life from others riches honors and all hope of promotion yet coulde not be so satisfyed but that incensed stirred with a greater fury it began to outrage euen against the dead Therfore wheras in euerye singular place was executed a singuler kinde of crueltie insomuch that there was no kinde of cruelnesse that could be deuised but it was put in vre in one place or other This was proper peculiar to Cambridge to exercise the crueltye vppon the dead whiche in other places was extended but to the quicke Oxford burnt vp the right reuerend fathers Cranmer Ridley and Latimer the noble witnesses of the clere lyght of the ghospel Moreouer at London peryshed these two lāternes of light Rogers and Bradford In whō it is hard to saye whether there were more force of eloquēce and vtterance in preachinge or more holinesse of life and conuersaciō Many other without noumber both here and in other places were consumed to ashes for bearing recorde of the truthe For what citie is there that hath not flamed I say not with burning of houses and buyldinges but with burning of holy bodies But Cambridge after ther wer no mo left aliue vpon whō they myght spue out theyr bitter poison playde the madde bedlem agaynst the dead The dead mē whose liuinge no man was able to finde faulte with whose doctrine no man was able to reproue wer by false slaūderous accusers indited contrary to the lawes of God and man sewed in the law condemned their sepulchres violated broken vp theyr car●ases pulled oute and burnt wyth fyre A thing surelye incredible if we had not seene it with our eyes and a thyng that hath not lyghtlye bene heard of But the haynousnesse of thys wycked act was spredde abrode as a commō talke in euery mans mouthe and was blowen disp●rsed through all christendome Bucer by thexcellēcye of his wit and doctrine knowen to al men of oure countreymen in maner craued of manye others intreated and sente for to thentent