390 -abbots Geog. ag, =7 t. E vangeliunt tam cetert vo latu ferebatur, 79' quidern a- tie menflruo per uníverfem Germaxiarrt,ei aliquot regiones exteras, ut ipfe Angell curlo. ree, ( hulas deetrinhr pr.e- cones rife vide- rental. Mulch. Adam. Rev-14 67 Melancht. re- float adSta- phylnm. Alefancht. ap. Joh, Mana. in lac. tom. pág. 7 5. Scripfit plus pain zoo vo- tura contra Papota. Pat eus in flpoc.14 6 . 4lfied. chro net, pag.375 Inmortbus 0- vita (uni boni, %erases in fer. -nrone,in carit.- te fraiernauna- nimes: /rdfides -eorum ell in- eortigibtti/ tT pefma. Earum dcElri- na maxiue eft noXtd. diuturnMr, a-Geweralior g. ßb .ecetn A Commentary open the Go(jel Chap.q. arnies ofone tree, to fuch a number as in Tome petty village., or Parish here : So is thegrowth of theGotpel, it runs and is glo. rifled, a Theff,3.i. as the Jerufalem-Artichoke overruns the ground,' wheretoever it is planted. It was a ¡rift wonderhow it was carried, ason Angels wings, overall the world by thepreach. ing of the Apostles at firs}, andnow again,in the late Reformation,' by Luther and fome few other menofmean rank, but ofrare fuc- cefle. Thefe were thofe Angels that came flying With theever- lafiing Goffiel (no new doiirin as the Adverfaries Blander it ) in the m_iddet of heaven, or betwixt heaven and earth ; becaute their doctrine at firs} was not fo clearly confirmed to others, nor to fullyundert' ood by themfelves. MelanRhon confeffetha nod , fzgiamtta habemue, fc. Pontificio,: gnos fegis,rrrtur non intelli- pmts. And Cardinals Wolfer (faith the fame Melanliho)/ ) reading the Ansborough- Confef]îon, faith, that our caufeconcern- ing the righteoufneffe offaith, was ftronger in the confirmation, then in theconfutation ofthe contrary opinion. Dread verum eft, as he there yeeldeth, quia facilitee conffruere in fophifticje guano de.ffruere : In Ph. contra. But our yohnWickliffe, long be- fore Luther, wrote more then two hundred volumes againft the the Pope. The Lady Anne, wife to K, Richard the fecund, filler toWenctflans K. ofbohemia, by livinghere Was madeacquaint:-' ed with the Gofpel. Whencealfo many Bohemians coming hither, conveyed pvicklips book into Bohemia ; whereby a good founda- tion was laid for e futureReformation. After this, wereflirted up thereby God,ohnHapand HieromofPrague ; who fopro- pagated the truth in that Kingdom, that in the year of Chrift `14p.1. the ChurchofGod at Con.ftantinople, congratulated to the Univerfìry of Prague their happy beginnings, and exhorted them to perfeverance. For before the Huffites, by the mediation of Queen Sophia, who favoured them, had obtained of the King the treeexercife oftheir Religion thoroWout Bohemia. Howbeit, loon after this,they sufferedgreat perfecution by the Pó'pifh party, who yet could fay no worfe of them then this; In their lives they are model, in their speeches true, in their love one towards another fervent; but their religion is incorrigible and lark naught, faith 7acobtu Leilenf}enüs the Dominican. And why lark naught? Reineritss another of their Perfccutours (ball tali you : Their do- ¿trine, faith he, is most pelilenc, 1. Because of to long landing. 2. Because fo far.fpread. 3. For theirthew of purity,&c. This paved
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