1st Edition

Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 12

By Elaine V. Beilin Copyright 2001
528 Pages
by Routledge

528 Pages
by Routledge

As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated Calvin’s four sermons from French, dedicating the work to Katharine, Duchess of Suffolk. These were published with the appended sonnet sequence A meditation of a penitent sinner. This appears to be the... Read more
Contents: Introductory note; Anne Lock Prowse, trans, Sermons of John Calvin, upon the songe that Ezechias made after he had bene sicke, and afflicted by the hand of God, conteyned in the 38. Chapiter of Esay; A meditation of a penitent sinner; Anne Lock Prowse, trans, [Jean Taffin], Of the markes of the children of God, and of their comforts in afflictions; Elizabeth Russell, trans, [John Ponet], A Way of Reconciliation of a good and learned man, touching the Trueth, Nature, and Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament

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Elaine V. Beilin