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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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1What did it profit unto the kings of Israel, to boast that they served the God of Israel, which had brought them out of Egypt. There with named and meant they. The very God of their fathers. And did also observe the whole law of Moses. But for as much as they besides that, did also honour Calves or Baal, or at the least there with, of mans imagination. Did institute new God's service, to the honour of the very true God So was it all lost. For against the same was God's commandment. Thou shalt have none other God besides me.
1What did it profite vnto the kynges of Israel, to boaste that they serued the God of Israel, whiche had brought them oute of Egypte. There with named and meaned they. The very God of their fathers. And did also obserue the whole lawe of Moyses. But for as much as they besydes that, did also honour Calues or Baal, or at the least there with, of mannes imagination. Did institute newe Goddes seruice, to the honour of the very true God So was it all lost. For agaynste the same was Goddes cōmaundemēt. Thou shalt haue none other God besydes me.
- 1Goddes service of the kings of Israel.Goddes seruice of the kynges of Israel.
And Moses Deu. iiij. and xij. had commanded,1 that they should not pretend any newness or alteration, or of their own imagination, saying: What ⟨image 77⟩soever I command the that shalt thou do. Thou shalt take nothing from it, nor put any thing there unto. Thou shalt not turn from it to the left hand nor to the right hand, That is. Thou shalt neither make it better nor worse, neither diminish nor alter any thing. Whereof we read in the Prophets in divers places, how that they rebuked kings. Priests and the people because they invented daily new ways, and did not abide in the right way and only path.