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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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Also in. xxij. psalm, 1and in the prophet Obadiah, the kingdom is the lords or gods. In both the places the speech is of Messiah or of Christ, and it calleth him by the same name by which scripture nameth in every place the true and only God, maker of heaven and earth, therefore it must needs follow and can not be denied, that Christ is true God. Is it than so incredible, that the creator and maker of all things, restoreth and calleth again unto life his creature, now fallen and dead, which he made before of nothing. 2And so saith Paul in the 26 chapter of the acts before king Agrippa, wherefore is it thought incredible among you, if God raise up dead men, as he would say. Forasmuch as ye believe that God is almighty, & that he hath made heaven and earth, how than may he not also, call again unto life his creature that is dead. Is it not more difficult and a greater thing ⟨image 72⟩to make something of nothing, than to restore & renew that which was made before. Whosoever believeth the creation of all things, he must needs believe also that God may raise up again dead men, & that he will do it, because he promised that he him self would do it. Secondly yt law & the prophets teach us, what is the ministration of Messiah, or what he his works which he would do after in earth, that is to say to put away since, to slay death, to redeem his chosen men from power of death, to call again dead men unto life, & to give to his chosen men everlasting life, here for a short time to be thrown down, to be made less, & to be made low, poor & abject, but therefore a little after to be exalted and to reign with his own for ever world without end. Of these the Jews might have gotten forsooth to them selves so great understanding, if they had taken heed, that they would not have mocked the words of Christ, saying, the wench sleepeth, like as he had spoken vain things, and had promised openly impossible ⟨image 72⟩things.
Also in. xxij. psalme, 1and in the prophete Abdia, the kingdome is the lordes or gods. In bothe the places the speche is of Messias or of Christe, and it calleth hym by thesame name by whiche scripture nameth in euery place the trewe and onely God, maker of heauē and earth, therfore it must nedes followe and can not be denied, that Christe is trew God. Is it than so incredible, that the creatour and maker of all thinges, restoreth and calleth againe vnto life his creature, now fallē and deade, whiche he made before of nothing.