The last will and last confession of martin Luther's faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal…The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal…

Name: The last will and last confession of martin Luther's faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal…
Author: Martin Luther

The last will and last confession of martin Luther's faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal articles of religion which are in controversy, which he will defend & may[n]teine until his death, against the pope and the gates of hell draw[n] forth by him at the request of the princes of germany which have reformed their [sic] churches after the gospel, to be offered up at the next general council in all their names & now published before that all the world may have an evident testimony of his faith if it shall fortune him to dye before there be any such cou[n]cel, tra[n]slated out of latin beware of the pope & of his false prophets and bishops for they will come in sheep's clothing and in angels faces but yet inwardly they are ravening wolves [sic].The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal articles of religion which are in controuersy, which he wil defend & mai[n]teine vntil his death, agaynst the pope and the gates of hell drawe[n] furth by him at the request of the princes of germany which haue reformed theier [sic] churches after the gospel, to be offred vp at the next general councel in all their names & now published before that all the world may haue an euydent testimony of his faith if it shal fortune him to dye before there be any such cou[n]cel, tra[n]slated out of latyn beware of the pope & of his false prophetes and bissopes for thei wil come in shepys clothing and in angels facys but yet inwardly thei are ravening wolnys [sic].

Martin Luther 1483–1546Wesel : D. van der Straten?, 1543

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The third part of the articles. › Of the sacrament of the body & blood of christThe third part of the articles. › Of the sacrament of the body & blode of christ

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Of the sacrament of the body & blood of christ

Of the sacrament of the body & blode of christ

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We judge and think that under bread & wive in the supper of the lord are given the true body & blood of christ. Item that the whole sacrament ought to be ministered to the lay people • not only one part there of for we have no need of that high learning & wisdom which teacheth that as much is contained under one kind as is under both / as the sophistical & popish pharisees and the council of constance do teach. And though it were true / that as much were contained under one kind as the sophistical papists say / yet the one kind alone / is not the hole institution & ordinance given commanded us of Christ. And specially we condemn excom•icate and curse / in the name of god / not only them which will not receive both kinds / but them principally which do lordly / vio and tyrannously forbid / condemn and reprove it as heresy / For as much as in so ding they set and bend them selves against christ our lord and ⟨image 28⟩god / yea & prefer them selves also before & above him. As for the transubstantiation / that is to say / that the bread & wine in the supper should lose their natural substance and only that the similitude form & colour of bread should remain & not very true bread / we pass not up on the subtle juggling imaginations of the pharisees. For it is very conformable unto the holy scripture that there should be & remain still / very bread as. S Paul him self nameth it / saying / The bread which we break &c. Item / and so let him eat of the bread &c.

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The last will and last confession of martin Luther's faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal…The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal…

Of the sacrament of the body & blood of christ

Of the sacrament of the body & blode of christ

Of the keys of the church

Of confession or absolution

Of confessyon or absolucyon

Of Excommunication

Of Excōmunicacyon

Of giving of orders & of the calling of ministers

Of geuīg of ordres & of the callīg of ministers

Of the marriage of priests

Of the mariage of pristes

The author

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of the sacrament of the body & blood of christ

Of the sacrament of the body & blode of christ

Of the keys of the church

Of confession or absolution

Of confessyon or absolucyon

Of Excommunication

Of Excōmunicacyon

Of giving of orders & of the calling of ministers

Of geuīg of ordres & of the callīg of ministers

Of the marriage of priests

Of the mariage of pristes

The author

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