A06492:1466
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.
Drunkenness, Gluttony.
Dronkennes, Gluttonie.
Paul doth not say that to eat & drink be works of the flesh, but to be drunken & to surfeit, which of all other vices are most common at this day. Who so are given to this beastly dissoluteness & excess, let them know that they are not spiritual, how much so ever they boast them selves so to be, but they follow the flesh and perform the filthy works thereof. Therefore is this horrible sentence pronounced against them, that they shall not be inheritors of the kingdom of God. Paul would therefore that Christians should fly drunkenness & surfeiting,1 living soberly & moderately without all excess, lest by pampering the flesh they should be provoked to wan tonnes: As in deed after surfeiting & belly cheer, the flesh is wont to wax wanton, & to be inflamed with outrageous lust. But it is not sufficient only to restrain this outrageous wantonness & lust of the flesh which followeth drunkenness & surfeiting or any manner of excess, but also the flesh when it is most sober & in his best temperance must be subdued & repressed, lest it fulfil his lusts & desires. For it oftentimes cometh to pass that even they which are most sober,2 are tempted most of all: As Hierom writeth of himself: My face saith he, was pale with fasting, & my mind was inflamed with fleshly desires in my cold body, and although my flesh was half dead already, yet yt flames of unclean lust boiled within me. Hereof I my self also had experience when I was a Monk. The heat therefore of unclean lusts is not quenched by fasting only, but we must be aided also by the spirit, that is, by the meditation of Gods word, faith & prayer. ⟨p. 261⟩