A06508:107
A fruitful and godly exposition and declaration of the kingdom of Christ and of…A frutefull and godly exposition and declaracion of the kyngdom of Christ and of…
A fruitful and godly exposition and declaration of the kingdom of Christ and of the christen liberty, made upo[n] the words of the prophet Jeremy in the xxij. chapter, with an exposition of the viij. Psalm, entreating of the same matter, by the famous clerk Doctor Martin Luther, whereunto is annexed A godly sermon, of Doctor Urbanus Regius, upon the ix. Chapter of Matthew of the woman that had an issue of blood & of the rulers daughter, newly translated out of high Almain.A frutefull and godly exposition and declaracion of the kyngdom of Christ and of the christen lybertye, made vpo[n] the wordes of the prophete Jeremye in the xxij. chapter, with an exposycyon of the viij. Psalme, intreatyng of the same matter, by the famous clerke Doctor Martyn Luther, whereunto is annexed A godly sermon, of Doctor Urbanus Regius, vpon the ix. Chapyter of Mathewe of the woman that had an issew of blood & of the rulers daughter, newly translated oute of hyghe Almayne.
London: printed by S. Mierdman for Gwalter Lynne, 1548
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¶ Even such heretics are we, that preach the Gospel, repentance and remission of since, and teach, how we shall be delivered from sin, and made safe, & obtain everlasting life. This heresy, as they call it, do we teach. Oh good Lord is this evil? Ought men for this to destroy, and to shed blood? We are no heretics, but preach the helped Gospel sincerely and purely, And yet do we find with great sorrow & smarts, that they do so call us, and seek to shed our blood, notwithstanding that think nor mean none evil, but would fain help, and bestow our counsel most earnestly and faithfully in it, that such gorgeous Imperial minsters Canonries, and Prebends, might not be given to the heinous whores and fornicators of Rome. But that they might be turned to the good & right use, whereunto they were first minded ⟨image 53⟩& given. 1But here is one thing in thy way again, namely the mass which thou wouldest fain maintayne• Alas, what is the mass? Let go what soever will not avid, thou diddest never willingly say mass before, this is sure, and I know it by me self, which notwithstanding have ben a holy freer, and have miserably and pitifully blasphemed my Lord Jesus Christ for the space of xv. years with my massing, & yet I did never say mass willingly, how holy & devout soever I was. But take the Bible, in stead of the mass, study & learn the holy Scripture, 2deserve & keep thy prebend with a good conscience, this is better, than that the ungodly Romans should take it away. I would not now take ten thousand crowns, and say one mass. Seeing then, that thou diddest it unwillingly before, why doest thou then hold so sore with the mass? But if thou have a delight still to accumulate and gather money and to give the same to the Romanists, well, give unto them still, as long as thou haste ⟨image 54⟩[…] ⟨image 54⟩[…] ⟨image 55⟩any thing, what doeth it hinder me.