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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…
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].
Wesel : D. van der Straten?, 1543
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And this thing might be brought to pass ⟨image 8⟩the better / if they were instruct / that the mass is a perilous & a dangerous thing / imagined of mans brain with out any commandment or will of god.
And this thing might be brought to passe ⟨image 8⟩the better / if thei were instruct / that the masse is a perlos & a dangeros thing / imagyned of mans brayn with out any commandment or wil of god.
Fourthly for as much as there have been an infinite number of most detestable abuses through out the whole world by the reason of buying and selling of masses / it is a lawful & a sufficient cause wherefore all masses ought to be disannulled & forbidden / though it were for no nother cause than this only that those abuses might so be removed / although there were some goodness or utility in them as there is none at all. And they ought rather to be abolished that these abuses might be forbidden / specially seeing such masses be unprofitable / unnecessary / and full of peril and danger / and again all things both more necessary more profitable & also more certain / may be obtained / though there were n• such mass.
Forthly for as moch as there haue bene an infinyte nomber of most detestable abusis thorow out the whole world by the reason of bying and selling of masses / it is a lauful & a sufficient cause wherfore all masses ought to be disanulled & forbidden / though it were for no nother cause than this only that those abuses might so be remoued / although there were some goodnes or vtilyte in them as there is none at all. And thei ought rather to be abolisshed that these abuses might be forbidden / specially seing such masses be vnprofitable / vnnecessary / and ful of perel and danger / and agaime all things both more necessary more profitable & also more certen / may be obteined / though there were n• such masse.