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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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for when the soul departeth from the body, than that departing by it ⟨image 75⟩self is death, & it should remain death and everlasting sleep against all the power of the whole world, which might not at any time break & vanquish everlastingly this sleep, but when death is compared to Christ, & is put against him, than it is non other thing than a sleep to his divine power, because Christ (forasmuch as he him self is almighty life and everlasting fountain of all life) speaketh only one word, 1Lazarus come thou fourth. John the .xi. Young man. I say to the rise thou up, 2in Luke the .vij. also he toucheth the dead body, and death is constrained to depart, and the self life to return, as here Matthew the ix. anon after he held the hand of the wench, 3the soul returneth unto the body. For as Chrysostom saith, he put not in an other soul into the body, but he restored so easily to the body that self soul, which it had before, even as he had raised it up from sleep. The fathers of true faith hath wined and considered with much more diligence, than we this divine power of ⟨image 75⟩Christ, which he hath declared in raising up the dead by only touching, and they had here very good and very excellent meditations of the parson of Christ, of the mystery of his humanity, as Cyrillus upon John in the .vi. 4chapter, where he saith, that the flesh of our saviour Christ is united or joined together, also made lively to the eternal word of God, which is naturally the self life, so that it may make lively. And therefore Christ wham he raised up the dead, used not only words nor commanded only, as almighty God, but he used to that business some time also his flesh & body, as a fellow worker that he might declare by the self work, that also his body hath virtue of quickening & making lively, for as much as it is in unity & joined together to his divine nature that man believing, might learn that it was his own proper body & no other mans.