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sciences,) armed and guarded with the power of emperors, CHAP, 

 kings, princes, and laws, beyond all men s expectations, __ 



&quot; contrary to hope, a poor Friar, one man, at that time not 

 &quot; the best learned, through the mighty hand of God, ac- 

 &quot; cording to his unsearchable decree, was able, not with 

 tc force and armour, not with bands of men and power, not 

 &quot; with favour of princes and prelates, not with any help 

 &quot; of man or favour of the world, to set up the cross of 

 &quot; Christ, to pull down the chair of Antichrist, to restore 

 &quot; God s word, to banish the Devil s sophistry, to make of 

 &quot; darkness light, of lies truth, of plain foolishness true wis- 

 &quot; dom ; and as it were another Helena, to find out the 

 &quot; cross of Christ hidden in the dunghill of devilish doc- 

 &quot; trine, covered with the rotten bones of Romish martyrs, 

 &quot; sinful saints, and counterfeit confessors.&quot; 



And when about the year 1577 great fears were in all His P ra y er 

 men s hearts from the joint conspiracies of Popish Princes minister. 

 abroad, and the Scotch Queen s accomplices at home, against 

 the peace and quiet of England, the Bishop knowing what a 

 great minister of state the Lord Treasurer was, and w r hat 

 a chief hand he had in the counsels and government, fell to 

 his prayers, and most earnestly beseeched God to give that 

 great Counsellor &quot; the eyes of angels and the wisdom of 

 &quot; Solomon ;&quot; styling him &quot; God s great and good instru- 

 &quot; ment in this poor ark of Noah in these dangerous times.&quot; 



And concerning Henry the French King, a deadly op- His zeal 

 pressor of his poor Protestant subjects, who had also joined f^^ 

 in league with the Turk, Christ s sworn enemy, (by means King, a P er- 

 of which league the Turk fell upon some Christian king- S( 

 doms,) he zealously brake out into these words : &quot; He, a 

 &quot; King or a Devil, a Christian or a Lucifer, that by his 

 &quot; cursed confederacy so encourageth the Turk, that he now 

 &quot; dares be bold to venture upon Polonia, a Christian realm, 

 &quot; which hath received the Gospel, and that way to come 

 &quot; into Germany. Oh ! wicked caitiff, and firebrand of 

 &quot; hell, [pardon, reader, this language to his zeal,] which, 

 &quot; for the increasing of the pomp and vain-glory which he 

 &quot; shall not long enjoy, [mark that,] will betray Christ and 



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