The prudentiall ballance of religion wherin the Catholike and protestant religion are weighed together with the weights of prudence, and right reason. The first part, in which the foresaide religions are weighed together with the weights of prudence and right reason accordinge to their first founders in our Englishe nation, S. Austin and Mar. Luther. And the Catholike religion euidently deduced through all our kings and archbishopps of Canterburie from S. Austin to our time, and the valour and vertue of our kings, and the great learninge and sanctitie of our archbishopps, together with diuers saints and miracles which in their times proued the Catholike faith; so sett downe as it may seeme also an abridgement of our ecclesiasticall histories. With a table of the bookes and chapters conteyned in this volume.
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The prudentiall ballance of religion wherin the Catholike and protestant religion are weighed together with the weights of prudence, and right reason. The first part, in which the foresaide religions are weighed together with the weights of prudence and right reason accordinge to their first founders in our Englishe nation, S. Austin and Mar. Luther. And the Catholike religion euidently deduced through all our kings and archbishopps of Canterburie from S. Austin to our time, and the valour and vertue of our kings, and the great learninge and sanctitie of our archbishopps, together with diuers saints and miracles which in their times proued the Catholike faith; so sett downe as it may seeme also an abridgement of our ecclesiasticall histories. With a table of the bookes and chapters conteyned in this volume.
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"The prudentiall ballance of religion wherin the Catholike and protestant religion are weighed together with the weights of prudence, and right reason. The first part, in which the foresaide religions are weighed together with the weights of prudence and right reason accordinge to their first founders in our Englishe nation, S. Austin and Mar. Luther. And the Catholike religion euidently deduced through all our kings and archbishopps of Canterburie from S. Austin to our time, and the valour and vertue of our kings, and the great learninge and sanctitie of our archbishopps, together with diuers saints and miracles which in their times proued the Catholike faith; so sett downe as it may seeme also an abridgement of our ecclesiasticall histories. With a table of the bookes and chapters conteyned in this volume." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12485.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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King Ethelard. VIII.
13. KIng Ina going to Rome An. 728. as Florent hath Chron. left his Kingdome to Ethelard,* 1.1 who held it most quietly (saith Malmsb. lib. 1. c. 2.) 14. yeares▪ he was saith Malmsb. Cosin to King Ina, and a valiant Prince.* 1.2 His roman religion appea∣reth, both by that King Ina so notorious a Papist chose him to whome he would commit his kingdome, as appeareth by Beda lib. 5. cap. 7. and also by other things which are by Protestants confessed of the religion of this time. In this Kings time died S. Egbert Priest Anno 729.* 1.3Ex Beda lib. 3. cap. 27. vvho led (saith he) his life in great perfection of humility and meeknes, conti∣nency, innocencie and righteousnes, and conuerted the Scotts to the right obseruation of Easter. And S. Beda himselfe, that glorious do∣ctor of our English Church, the flower of Christianity at that time for ver∣tue and learning of whose high prai∣ses giuen to him by Protestants, and of his perfect roman Religion I haue said ynough before. Here only I will adde
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the Elogy of Malmsb. lib. 1. cap. 3. Bedam (saith he) mirari facilius &c, you may sooner admire then vvorthly praise Beda, vvho liuing in the farthest corner of the vvorld vvith the flash of his doctrine haue a light to all Nations. Here vvit faileth vvords are vvanting, vvhile I cannot tell vvhat most to commend, vvhither the mu••••••∣tude of his volums,* 1.4or the sobriety of his stile. For doubtles the diuine vvisdome had vvith no sparing draught giuē him to drinck, that in so short a scāt∣ling of his life could perfect so huge volūes. The re∣port of his name vvas so famous that the cheefest in Rome had neede of him for the resoluing of doubt∣full questions. And much more there of his holines.* 1.5 Where also he addeth that he died anoiled and hovvseled. The like hath Florent: and Westmon. Anno 734. and Hunting. lib. 4. Caius de antiq. Canterb. pag. 138. pro∣ueth that Beda went to Rome, and there read his bookes coram Romana Ecclesia: Be∣fore the Church of Rome and then gaue them to other to copie forth, vvhich vvas (saith he) or∣dinarie in the Ecclesiasticall vvriters of that age to deliuer their vvorks first to the Pope of Rome to be examined.* 1.6 In this Kings time Anno 737. (as is in the Epitome of Beda) Ceolwolfe King of Northumberland (to whome Beda dedicated his history) left his King∣dome, and became a Monke. And as Malmsb. 1. Reg. cap. 3. florished with mi∣racles. And about the same time Frige∣dida
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Queene of the west-Saxons went to Rome, Hunting. lib. 4. pag. 340.* 1.7 Godwin in the Bish. of Salsbery, which at that time (saith Beda lib. 5. cap. 4. And Hunting:* 1.8 l. cit) many English men both of the nobilitie and cōmons spirituall & tēporal vvere wont to vse vvith 〈◊〉〈◊〉 emulation. In this Kings time also a∣bout the year 730. as Godwin hath in the Bishops of Oxford, (though Capgraue in her life say 750.) liued the holy Virgin S. Frideswid,* 1.9 who flying to saue her maydenhood from Prince Algarus, he was miraculously strooke blind,* 1.10 and she after became Abbesse of a nonry built by her Father Didā. These dayes were so far from Protestancy, and so manifestly Ca∣tholicke, as Bale Cent. 1. cap. 93. saith they were pessima tempora pubescente Antichri∣sto: Very bad time vvhen Antichrist grevv to riper yeares: And Centur. 2. cap. 6. writeth of Cymbertus an English Bishop of S. Bedas time, After the custome of the rest in the same age he taught and cōmended the Roman customs to be obserued in his Churches. And Fulke Annot. in Hebr. 10. saith Beda liued in a superstitious time, long after Antichrist did opēly shevv himself. And 1. Petri 3. Beda vvas carried avvay vvith the er∣rors and corruptions of his time. Fox Acts pag. 126. calleth this time a Monkish age, And S. Ceolfrid maister to S. Beda a Shaue¦ling. So plainly do they confesse England