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The chief and principal articles of the Christen faith to hold against the Pope,…The chiefe and pryncypall articles of the Christen faythe to holde againste the Pope,…
The chief and principal articles of the Christen faith to hold against the Pope, and all papists, and the gates of hell, with other three very profitable and necessary books the names or titles, whereof are contain in the leaf next following. Made by Doctor Marten Luther. To the reader. In this book shall you find Christian reader the right probation of the right old catholic Church, and of the new false Church, whereby either of them is to be known. Read and judge.The chiefe and pryncypall articles of the Christen faythe to holde againste the Pope, and al papistes, and the gates of hell, with other thre very profitable and necessary bokes the names or tyttels, whereof are conteyne in the leafe next followynge. Made by Doctor Marten Luther. To the reader. In thys boke shal you fynde Christian reader the ryght probation of the righte olde catholyke Churche, and of the newe false Churche, whereby eyther of them is to be knowen. Reade and iudge.
printed by S. Mierdman for Gwalter Lynne, 1548
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1Tenthly, can no man deny, That we also do not shed blood again, nether murder, hang, & revenge our selves as we oftentimes might & yet could do. But even as Christ, the Apostles, & the old church hath done. So we suffer exhort, and pray for them. Also openly in the church, in the litany & sermons, like as christ our Lord hath done & taught, & the old church also. So that here in also we behave our selves conformable to the old fashion of the old church.
1Tenthly, can nomā denye, That we also do not shede bloude agayn, nether murther, hange, & reuenge oure selues as we oftentymes myght & yet coulde do. But euē as Christ, the Apostles, & the old church hath done. So we suffre exhorte, and pray for thē. Also opēly in the church, in the letany & sermōs, lyke as christ our Lord hath done & taught, & the olde churche also. So that here in also we behaue our selues cōformable to the olde fasshion of the olde church.
- 1The church useth no vengeance.The churche vseth no vēgaunce.
For as much now as the papists know that we in all such points, an whatsoever there be more of them be conformable unto the old church, and may lawfully be called the old church (for so much as such points be not now, nor of us invented) It is a marvellous case, how they may be so bold, so shameless to belie & to condemn us, as though we were fallen from the church, & had begun a new church. Notwithstanding, that they can ⟨image 58⟩not find, any novelties by us, that was not used in the old and right Church, in the Apostles time. In so much that I think verily. This be the time, Whereof Daniel .vij. sayeth.1 The old aged sat him down, after that the lift horn had ended his blaspheming and the judgement given. For the primitive old Church breaketh forth again (like as the sun after the clouds, behind the which clouds the same sun was, but not so bright shining) And that presumptuous horn shall perish. And all shall have an end, as even there is contained, and the work it self declareth where of to dispute, is no time here.