Excerpt from A Selection From the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England: This Volume Contains Various Tracts and Extracts From the Works of William Tindal, John Frith, Patrick Hamilton, George Joy, Robert Barnes, With Memorials of Their Lives and WritingsAlbeit, divers others also beside these, I say not nay, as well before them as after, through the secret operation of God's mighty providence, have been raised up, both famous in learning, ¿ourishing in wit, and stout in zeal, who labouring in the same cause, have nobless valiantly and doughtily stood in the like defence of Christ's true religion, against blind error, pestilent superstition, and perilous hy pocrisy, namely, against the arch enemy of Christ and his ¿ock, the bishopi mean of Rome, with his tyrannical seat: as namely here in England. John Wiekli¿', Rigge, Aston, Swinderby, W. Thorpe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.