A06508:87
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
After this sort, can no Emperor, King nor Prince rule, for he must do ⟨image 42⟩stwith the deed. If I shall be rich, he must not give me words, but money and goods with the deed. For words will not help the matter. But here, in Christs kingdom, is it clean contrary, for here, although I were exceeding rich, and had all the goods of the world, yet were they not able to forgive nor to take away my since, with all their might, dominion, and power, with all the ploughs & harrows, and with all the strength & power of all the substance and riches of this world.
After this sorte, can no Emperour, Kynge nor Prince rule, for he must do ⟨image 42⟩stwith the dede. Yf I shall be ryche, he muste not geue me wordes, but money and goodes with the dede. For wordes will not helpe the matter. But here, in Christes kyngedome, is it cleane contrarye, for here, although I were excedinge ryche, and had all the goodes of the worlde, yet were they not able to forgeue nor to take awaye my synnes, with all their might, dominion, and power, with al the plowes & harrowes, and with all the strenght & power of al the substaunce and ryches of this worlde.
Wherefore? and why so? I thought, whosoever had money and goods, power & dominion, had had all things? No, not so, he is yet far from the remission of since, & the life everlasting although he be rich, and have great goods, and is mighty, for they hear not the word, wherefore they believe not but stick in darkness, are drowned in covetousness, & in the substance of this world, and they regard not the word nor God him self. And wheresoever the word nor God him self is not, ⟨image 43⟩there is darkness and the kingdom of the devil, out of the which, no money, goods, power nor dominion, is able to deliver him. But if he will be loosed out of the kingdom of darkness and of the devil, and have remission of since, and the life everlasting, which in the kingdom of Christ, through the word is offered & given us freely, then let him stick fast and cleave to the word, hear the same, receive it, and believe it, so shall he obtain all things, &c.