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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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Thus speaketh the Prophet clearly, & distinctly of both the kingdoms not that he doth abrogate and disannul the worldly and external kingdom which consisteth in the doing and applying, but rather doth approve and confirm it: For rulers must be had, for to keep peace, justice, and unity, to defend the good, & to punish the evil, or else there should be a great disorder in all things, therefore doth not the Prophet abolish the same outward kingdom.
Thus speaketh the Prophete clearly, & distinctly of bothe the kingdomes not that he doth abrogate and disanull the worldely and externall kyngdome which consisteth in the doyuge and applyenge, but rather doth approue and confirme it: For rulers must be had, for to kepe peace, iustice, and vnitie, to defende the good, & to punysshe the euill, or elles there shoulde be a great disordre in all thinges, therfore doth not the Prophet abolysshe thesame outward kyngedome.
But in the Spiritual kingdom of ⟨image 43⟩Christ when a minister of the Church baptiseth, with words and water, after the institution of Christ, if an ungodly and unbelieving person do see it, he doth laugh it to scorn, as a foolish deed, in mans reason, because he doth neither see nor feel, what there is executed, namely that there are present, and baptise, all the three persons of the godly majesty, receive the man, which was conceived and borne in sin, & make him lose from the kingdom of the devil, and feet him in the kingdom of heaven, wherein is remission of since Grace, and salvation.
But in the Spirituall kyngdom of ⟨image 43⟩Christ whan a minister of the Church baptiseth, with wordes and water, after the institution of Christe, yf an vngodly and vnbeleuyng person do se it, he doth langh it to scorne, as a folysshe dede, in mans reason, because he doth neither se nor fele, what there is executed, namely that there are present, and baptise, al the thre persons of the godly maiestie, receyue the mā, which was conceyued and borne in synne, & make hym lose from the kyngdom of the deuill, and fette hym in the kyngdome of heauen, wherin is remission of synnes Grace, and saluation.