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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And he shall reign a king, and shall prosper with wisdom, and shall set up equity and righteousness again in earth.
And he shall reigne a kynge, and shall prospere with wysedome, and shall set vp equitie and righteousnes agayne in earth.
These words sound, as though he ⟨image 10⟩would signify, that there is no righteousness in earth. I mean not only of the righteousness, which is of valour before God, but also of the outward righteousness of the world, which is but a very beggars cloak. For the world is a right school of the devils unthrifts. Therefore hath God also ordained the sword, and also the hangman, that yet a little part of righteousness might be in earth. For with the righteousness which is of valour before God, it will not be. In earth is nothing but unrighteousness, both in the temporal Governance, and also in the spiritual. Governance is nothing but blaspheming of God. For thus saith the Psalm. xiiij. 1The Lord looked done from heaven upon the Children of men to see, if there were any that would understand and seek after God. But they were all gone out of the way, and were altogether become abominable, there is none that doeth good, no not one. & cete. There giveth he a short ⟨image 11⟩sentence, saying that there is not one good. God to then, this is sure, if a man will behold the world even from heaven downward, he shall see nothing but mere blindness iniquity, unrighteousness, and foolishness, and nothing else, but a stable full of ungracious unthrifts, and not much better then she was in the time of Noah. When God through the flood, caused all men to perish saving eight persons.
These wordes sounde, as though he ⟨image 10⟩