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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.
So the Prince, the magistrate, the preacher, the schoolmaster, the scholar, the father, the mother, the children, the master, the servant are persons and outward veils, which God will have us to acknowledge, love and reverence as his creatures, which also must needs be had in this life: but he will not have us so to reverence them or trust unto them, that we forget him. And to the end that we should not too much magnify the outward persons or put any trust in them, God leaveth in them offences and sins, yea great and foul sins, to teach us what ⟨p. 47⟩difference there is between the person and God him self.1 *David that good king, because he should not seem to be a person upon whom men should trust, fell into horrible sins, adultery and murder.* Peter that excellent Apostle denied Christ. These and such like examples, whereof the scripture is full, ought to warn us that we repose not our trust in the person & outward veil, nor think that when we have the outward shows & shadows, we have all things: As it is in Popery, where they judge all things according to the outward veil, and therefore all Popery is nothing else but a mere respecting of persons and outward shows. God hath given his creatures to our use and to do us service, and not as Idols, that we should do service unto them. Let us then use bread, wine, apparel, possessions, gold, silver, and all other creatures: but let us not trust or glory in them: for we must trust and glory in God alone: He only is to be loved, he only is to be feared and honoured.
So the Prince, the magistrate, the preacher, the scholemaster, the scholer, the father, the mother, the children, the master, the seruaūt are persons and outward veiles, which God will haue vs to acknowledge, loue and reuerence as his creatures, which also must needes be had in this life: but he wil not haue vs so to reuerence them or trust vnto them, that we forget him. And to the end that we should not too much magnifie the outward persons or put any trust in them, God leaueth in them offences and sinnes, yea great and foule sinnes, to teach vs what ⟨p. 47⟩