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 [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue.

  • Thomas Fuller
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1651
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Credit: 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 [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    writeing againft Berengarius with the rich’ Arch bifbopricke “a of Canterbury. But Be rengarius: never mounted higher then his Arch Deaconry of -Angiers: where he died on Epiphanie or Twelfe-day, Anno 1088. Different is che judgement of | learned men concerning his finall eftate. Heildebert bifhop of Maine and our William of Malmesbury, fay that he died bomo novus,a reclaimed man,and dandle him in the Jappe of the Romifh Church as a true childé thereof. But Cardinal] Baronius lookes upon. Him under the notion ofa Hereticke, accounting his Recantation. but fuperficiall indited rather from his Cowardife then Confcience. Our Illyricus, in His catalogue of the witueffes of the Truth,affords him a principal] place therein. We leave himto ftand or fall to his owne mafter, according tothat concluding Difticke, which we find in an Aauthor : Cum nihil iple vides propria quin labe laboret, Tu tua fac curesscetera mitte Deo. Seeing nought thon feeft but faults are in the beft, Loske Thou unto thy felfeleave God the reft. 16 Remarkeable are hid words wherewith he breathed out his laft gafpe, which Illyricus reporteth to this Effea : now am I te gory and appeare before God, either to be acquitted by bim as I bope,or condemned by him as I feare.. Which words, as they favour not of that full affurance of Salvation which God vouchfafeth to many of his fervants, fo they carry not with them any offenfive Breath of Defpaire, And itis no contradition in Chriftianity, to rejoyce before God with trembling. And inthis Twilight we leave Berengari- wstothat mercifull God, who knoweth whereof we are made and remembereth we are but duft, Moft worthily may this Divine Old Berengarius, .fairely (bine' rl sat Within this Skie of lufirions Starres, 3 Who, 'gainft Romes errours fonght Trathsiwarress: | .. Confuting with bigh approbation,» «(0 a _Romes figment, Tran{ubftantiation 5 Which }