1579, Isaac RABBOTENU (pseud. [i.e. Philips van Marnix, Heer van St. Aldegonde.]), The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the Authour (Isaac Rabbotenu) a Zealous Protestant, Under the Person of a Superstitious Papist, Doth So Driely Refell the Grose Opinions of Popery, and So Divinely Defend the Articles of Christianitie, that ... There is Not a Booke to be Founde ... Sweeter for Thy Comforte. [In Answer to G. Hervet's “Missive ... Aen de Verdoolde Van Den Christen Geloove.”] Translated Out of Dutch Into Englisshe by George Gilpin the Elder. MS. Notes. B.L. […] this most profitable and true christian worke : which though by reason of the manifoldnesse of the matter it be wearisome to reade […]
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