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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians
A commentary of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians first collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching, and now out of Latin faithfully translated into English for the unlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...A commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians first collected and gathered vvord by vvord out of his preaching, and novv out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the vnlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling wihtin sic, 1575London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling vvihtin sic, 1575
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These things sufficiently declare who be the true Saints in deed, and which is to be called a holy life:1 Not the life of those which lurk in caves & dens, which make their bodies lean with fasting, which wear hear, and do other like things with this persuasion and trust, that they shall have some singular reward in heaven above all ⟨image 262⟩other Christians: but of those which be baptised and believe in Christ, which put of the old man with his works, but not at once: For concupiscence and lust remaineth in them so long as they live: the feeling whereof doth hurt them nothing at all, if they suffer it not to reign in them, but subdue it to the spirit.
These things sufficiently declare who be the true Sainctes in deede, and which is to be called a holy life:1 Not the life of those which lurke in caues & dennes, which make their bodies leane with fasting, which weare hear, and doe other like things with this perswasion and trust, that they shall haue some singular reward in heauen aboue all ⟨image 262⟩other Christians: but of those which be baptised and beleue in Christ, which put of the olde man with his workes, but not at once: For concupiscence and lust remaineth in them so long as they liue: the feeling wherof doth hurt them nothing at all, if they suffer it not to raigne in them, but subdue it to the spirite.
- 1A holy life.
This doctrine bringeth great consolation to godly minds, that when they feel these darts of the flesh, wherewith Satan assaileth the spirit, they should not despair: As it happeneth to many in the Papacy, which thought that they ought to feel no concupiscence of the flesh, where as notwithstanding Hierome, Gregory, Benedict, Barnard and others (whom the Monks set before them as a perfect example of chastity and of all Christian virtues) could never come so far as to feel no concupiscence or lust of the flesh. Yea they felt it and that very strongly. Which thing they acknowledge and plainly confess in divers places of their books.