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
Date:
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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    | néere the titular Patriarch of Conftantinople, who formerly itbeene, if this pragmaticall perfecutor had had no more power in Conftance, then he received profit from Conftantin- Aeriall title. Ferommoft valiently and elequently affeffed the truth, recanting his recantation ? And protefting that nothing more troubled him in his: life, then his former cowardize. Thus,as the well levelled Canor,though at the difcharging by the force of the powder it recoyleth fome paces backward, yet it tendeth the Bullet to the right marke. So Ferom now hit home , notwithftanging his former fearfull failing,and became the more couragious in Gods caufe, yea bafhfull biufhing for their former faults, fo becometh the faces of good men, that it maketh them 16 Sentence of condemnation was prefently paffed up- on him, anda paper Mite was made for him to weare, wherein red divcls with monftrous vifages were depaint- ed, doneto affcight the vulgar, who common! y carry their foules in their eyes,much affi&2d wth fuch reprefentations; the heatké Romans hada cuftome that at the Apotheofis, i ly made at the top of the Rogus or funeral] pile ; and peo- Thus this pageant of painted divels was prefented to the people co poffeffe them. with an opinion, that in the fame fort the Fiends.of hell did arreft and feaze on the foule of Jerom., who notwithRanding would have done well e- nough, if the divels in flefh. their prefent had -not done more tohim, then-the divels.in paper. This Saint rather {miling at the folly then angry at the malice of his enes mies, cheerfully put the Miteron- his head; Did my Savoury (aid