A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



so 2Tea.t and so sure rbrecas: and counsel! of things to 

 come, as was four. i :r be in him. Whereupon his 

 discreet and provide/.: -.visedome ioyned with counsell 

 became a proverbe amono;sr us Xials bvta raden : That is 

 to sav, the counsel of Nialus : or, the thing is done, or 

 succeeded! by Nialus his counsel : when any busines 

 was atchieved prudently, and with admirable discretion. 

 This man, when, for a slaughter committed by his sonne 

 without his knowledge, he was in his owne house beset 

 with a IOC. men, who had conspired his death, and when 

 his enemies began on all sides to set his house on hre, 

 seeing his ende approch, at length he brake into these 

 words. Doubtlesse these things happen by fate, that is, 

 by :r.e ^'.'1 of God. Howbeit, I put my hope and con- 

 fider.ce ir. Christ, that we (meaning his wife, and himselfe) 

 although this our fraile body shal undergoe the cor- 

 ruption of death, in the fire of our enemies, yet, that it 

 shalbe delivered from eternal flames. And so in the 

 ir.idst of these voyces, and in the fury of the £ames, he 

 "■•:'- '-.'■ '"''-': and the manslaver his sonne, in the yere 

 c: Z:.:. . -.:3. ended his life. A voyce undoubtedly 

 full well beseemino- the sonnes of God, arguing the 

 n::i:"e comfort or his soule amidst the very pangs of 



1 therefore added those things to shew by what reason 

 I was moved to thinke, that in the ver\' beginning of 

 Christianitie received amongst us, mens minds were not 

 so b^niled and overwhelmed in the darkenes of errors, 

 as of late, a little before these our times, they have bene. 

 Asmmme^ But after the Lord God by Luther, and Luthers 



thelslauJen feUow-labourers in the vineyard of the Lord, and by his 

 godly successours, did r^i\'.t the doctrine of salvation 

 more manifest, and sr.l^: .;^ off the heavie slothe, and 

 thicke miste of our minds : r r ^er of his right hand, 

 that is by his holy Spirit M;:: .. ::. v. 28.) did plucke 

 the eares of our hear: ; 1 :- ri cur eyes, that we 

 might behold his savin ^ r t;>n : We ail, and every q\ us 

 do beleeve and confesse tnai: God is a spirit (John 4. v. 



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