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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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❧ An homily or sermon of the famous doctor Urbanus Rhegius of faith and resurrection, upon the Gospel of Matthew in the ix. Chapter, of the woman, which was grieved with the issue of blood, and of the daughter of the chief ruler, which being dead Christ restored to life, preached to the people of Hanover in Saxon.
❧ An homily or sermon of the famous doctour Vrbanus Rhegius of fayth and resurrection, vpon the Gospell of Mathew in the ix. Chapter, of the woman, whiche was grieued with the issew of bloudde, and of the doughter of the chief ruler, which being dead Christ restored to lyfe, preached to the people of Hannouer in Saxon.
Well-beloved in the Lord, when before the space of two years, I was called to you, according to the will of God our celestial father, that I might advance your love and honour dew unto God and health of your souls by teaching, admonishing & writing, ⟨image 57⟩I ceased not from that time to pray unfeignedly and diligently God our heavenly father, that he would vouchsafe to preserve you in wholesome doctrine, true faith and hope of the Gospel, and to finish his work, begun in you. And now I thank his fatherly goodness, that he hath preserved you under so many temptations, storms & engines of afflictions and persecutions and hath fortified your minds to con stance, and because all your afflictions and persecutions have chanced to the increase and stability of your saving hope, through the fatherly goodness of God and his singular counsel, that ye may be now more strong and more perfect to a devout and blessed life in every exercise, than ye have been before. But forsooth for as much as the devil our most cruel and most sworn enemy, doth assault and endeavour to destroy the faith and doctrine of Christ, by diverse and continual temptations, by marvellous wiles, by most crafty subtlety, and by many cautels in every place and in every moment, ⟨image 57⟩it is necessary that ye fortify your selves, and fight with all your might & main against an enemy so much to be feared, taking quickly true and unwinnable weapons, and an unuincible sword, that is to say, the word of God, the word of saving and eternal verity, which the devil more feareth and dreadeth trembling, than we miserable and feeble men may be troubled for fear of fire, of floods, of tempests, of knifes, and of swords, of guns, and of what other thing soever may hurt and destroy our corporal life.