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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.
Verse. 19. It was added because of transgressions.
Verse. 19. It vvas added because of transgressions.
As things are divers and distinct:1 so the uses thereof are divers and distinct: Therefore they may not be confounded. For if they be, there must needs be a confusion of the things also. A woman may not wear a mans apparel, nor a man a woman's attire. Let a man do the works that belong to a man, and a woman the works that belong to a woman. Let every man do that, which his vocation and office requireth. Let Pastors and Preachers teach the word of God purely. Let Magistrates govern their subjects, & let subjects obey their Magistrates. Let every thing serve in his due place and order.2 Let the Sun shine by day, the Moon and the Stars by night: let the sea give fishes, the earth grain, the woods wild beasts and trees. &c. In like manner let not the law usurp the office and use of an other: that is to say, of Justification: but let it leave this only to grace, to the promise, and to Faith. What is then the office of the law? Transgression, or else (as he saith in another place), The law entered in, that sin should abound. 3A goodly office forsooth. The law (saith he) was added for transgressions: that is to say, it was added besides and after the promise, until Christ the Seed should come unto whom it was promised.
As things are diuers and distinct: