'The Art of Flattery' (1576) - eTheses Repository - University of ...

filthy caue, my Enemy Dame Pleasure would haue cast
mee. Thus in this second age, in which time I
was conuersant among the holy prophets and men of Prophetes.
God, I endured many sharpe assaultes, and hard
5 skirmishes, to tedious at this time to declare.
But at the last, it pleased the creator and former
of the world to send his onely and "beloued sonne
in the shape of man, to aide mee with his diuine
power against my enemies, who (for my sake) was
10 vehemently persecuted, and suffered many notable
iniuries, of whose "birth, life, death, and
ascending to his heuenly father, I neede not to
thee discourse, "being a professor of holy write,
and as was no sooner departed from the earth to
15 the celestial throne, but I ioyned my selfe with
his Apostels, and so consequently vnto their
successors, til at the last it was the good will
and pleasure of God, to raise vp godly Christian
princes, to the niaintainance of mee, against /
20 my great enemies. Then was 1 planted most
florishingly as a goddesse on earth, and was
enthronised in churches by publike consent, and
3 Sidenote: position as in Q1b; in Q2 by
line 1; in Q1a by p.23.12.
5 to] Q1a, Q2; too Q1b
9-11 Sidenote: Q1b, Q2; omitted Q1a
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Christ
persecuted
for
truthes
sake*
Apostels.
Christian
Princes.