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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Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
Protestantism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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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 May 17, 2024.
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King Ethelbert XVI.
4. THe 16. king was Ethelbert bro∣ther to the former, begā his raigne An. 862. as Malmsb. hath in Fastis, and held the gouerment fiue yeares. He was saith Ingulph pag. 863.Validissimus adolescens, A most valiant yong man and an inuincible trium∣pher ouer the Danes, he stoutly for fiue yeares space gouerned the Kingdome. Malmsb. 2. Reg. cap. 3. saith he ruled strenuè dulciterque: Manfully and sweetly. Houed pag. 405. saith pacifice & amabiliter, peaceably and gently. In this Kings time died S. Swithin Anno 862. Florent. & Westmon. in Chron. As for the Roman religion of these two Princes, that appeareth both by what hath bene said of their Father, and what shalbe said of their two brothers.