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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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1But ye have filled all churches and schools so full of your dregs & dung that is mans doctrine & lies, and arrayed all places so foul with your vomit & filthiness, that (as Isaiah sayeth) no more room is left, and yet ye will be called the church.
1But ye haue filled al churches and schooles so ful of your dregges & dōg that is mannes doctrine & lyes, and arayed al places so foul with your vomite & filthynes, that (as Esay sayeth) no more roume is lefte, and yet ye will be called the churche.
- 1Mens traditions, & lies in the Papacy.Mens tradicyons, & lyes in the Papacye.
1And this point is besides the private mass, also one of the worst abominations, whose hurt & plague can not be grounded nor expressed, whereby ye have edified a new church for the ⟨image 63⟩devil, & have served him with the same, In so much that it is nothing but soul murder, and the very Molech, devourer of children, which suffereth not (as yonder Molech did) the souls of the children to be saved, although they were burned corporally, but contrariwise suffereth the body to live a short space, but the soul burneth perpetually.2 I can not for trembling recite much of the calamity of the innumerable false Idolatrous murtherysshe doctrine in Popery, this is, our new goodly Church.
1And this point is besydes the priuate masse, also one of the worste abhominations, whose hurt & plage cā not be grounded nor expressed, whereby ye haue edifyed a newe church for the