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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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Habakkuk in the second chapter, 1the just man shall live by faith. The prophet speaketh not here of this corporal life, which also the wicked and mischievous men have, yea and the brute beasts, but of the true life, by which we life before god in grace, as well beloved sons of god, which surely shall enter unto eternal life, as heirs to the father, after this transitory and shortly decaying life, in which heirs Christ liveth here, and leadeth ruleth, and governed them with his word and spirit &c.
Habacurk in the second chapter, 1the iust man shall liue by faith. The prophete speaketh not here of this corporall lyfe, whithe also the wicked and missheuous mē haue, yea and the brute beastes, but of the true lyfe, by whiche we lyfe before god in grace, as wel beloued sounes of god, which surely shall entre vnto eternall lyfe, as heyres to the father, after this transptory and shortely decayenge lyfe, in whiche heires Christ lyueth here, and leadeth ruleth, and gouerned them with hys worde and spyrite &c.
- 1Haba. ij
Now let us see what christ and his disciples say of faith in the new testament. 1In the 8 chapter of Matthew christ saith to Centurio, like as thou believest so be it to thee. In the .9. 2chapter of Matthew, when christ had seen the faith of the man sick in the palsy and their faith which brought to christ the man taken with the palsy, lying sick in a bed, he did forgive to him his sins and restored his health ⟨image 63⟩to him.