. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). appily the damp climate of Cambridgeshireaffected injuriously the constitution of Bucer, whosuffered much from the cold. King Edward provedalike the warmth of his regard and the kindness ofhis heart by sending to the invalid a hundred crownswherewith to purchase a German stove. Althoughthe sufferings may have been mitigated by the royalconsiderateness, there was to be no real recovery. Acomplication of troubles set
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). appily the damp climate of Cambridgeshireaffected injuriously the constitution of Bucer, whosuffered much from the cold. King Edward provedalike the warmth of his regard and the kindness ofhis heart by sending to the invalid a hundred crownswherewith to purchase a German stove. Althoughthe sufferings may have been mitigated by the royalconsiderateness, there was to be no real recovery. Acomplication of troubles set in to which the foreignersuccumbed on February 27, 1551, in the sixty-firstyear of his age. In habit, bearing, and dress Martin Bucer wasplain and modest. In keeping with the simpHcity 85 Bezas Portraits of Reformers of his life was the serenity of his death. Whenadmonished by John Bradford, the English martyr,to arm himself against the assaults of the devil, hereplied that he had nothing to do with the devil,because he was wholly in Christ. When told theend was at hand, he simply said, Ille, Ille regit, etmoderatur omnia ; He, He it is that ruleth, andgoverneth all 86
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