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man.’ In presenting the Gospels of the New Testament, the author does not provide a harmonised version as is customary in Thumb Bibles. Instead, he bases his narrative on the Gospel of Matthew. It is accorded a special role in describing the life of Jesus. It is given a total of twenty-two pages
Britain by choice. Their religiosity was defined by Genevan Calvinism. In England, they had aimed to ‘purify’ the Church of England of its episcopal hierarchy in a drive to ‘complete’ the Reformation. In New England, they were able to put their programme into practice. Family life, politics and
it resembled a translation of those records. Nonetheless, Bois’s queries about 1 Esdras also bear witness to some of the general preoccupations that motivated his study of the rest of the apocryphal books. Bois approached them with a set of techniques that helped him determine the original language
religious literature for public consumption on correct faith, Christian living, and dying in a state of grace. Among other publications, he produced an Evangelische Glaub-, Lebens- und Sterb-Schule (School of Evangelical Faith, Life, and Death, 1673), a Gesang-Buch (Songbook, 1672) and a Gebet
implored him not ‘ to loose his life for learning , he with a sweete smile finely answered out of the Poet Nec propter vitam vivendi perdere causas ’ [‘to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having’]. 27 Henry Hinde, Rainolds’s friend and executor, described those final days
–111)). Philip died in 1598, which is therefore the sermon’s terminus ad quem . A terminus a quo of 1594 can be established from Smith’s reference to Roderigo Lopez, Elizabeth’s Portugese doctor, who, according to Smith, was ‘hyred’ by Philip ‘to take away her life by poysoning, she being warned thereof, did