[ 43 ]
free, and publiquely proclaimed, and the whole World be filled withall. Even in ſuch manner as heretofore, many godly people have ſecretly and altogether deſperately puſht at the Popes Tyranny, which afterwards, with great earneſt, and eſpecial zeal in Germany, was thrown from his ſeat, and trodden under-foot, whoſe final fall is delayed, and kept for our times, when he alſo ſhall be ſcratched in pieces with nails, and an end be made of his Aſſes cry, by a new voyce: The which we know is already reaſonably manifeſt and known to many learned men in Germany, as their Writings and ſecret Congratulations do ſufficiently witneſs the ſame.
We could here relate and declare what all the time, from the year of our Lord 1378. (in which year our Chriſtian Father was born) till now, hath happened, where we might rehearſe what alterations he hath ſeen in the World theſe one hundred ſix years of his life, which he hath left to our Brethren and us after his deceaſe to peruſe: But brevity, which we do obſerve, will not permit at this preſent to make rehearſal of it, till a more fit time:
At
