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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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The iiij Article.
The pope neither is nor can be by the law & ⟨image 14⟩commandment of god the head of the whole church / for that is christ alone and none but he: And the pope is nothing else but the bishop / curate or parish priest of Rome and of them that of their own will or by the ordinance of man / that is to say by the temporal ruler are appointed to be under his cure / not to be subject to him as to their highest lord & prince / but that they should like christen men live together with him like brethren & fellows of the same degree / like as the old councils & the time of cyprian do evidently declare.
The pope neither is nor can be by the lawe & ⟨image 14⟩commandment of god the head of the whole church / for that is christ alone and nome but he: And the pope is nothin els but the bisshop / curate or parissh prist of Rome and of them that of their own wil or by the ordinance of man / that is to say by the temporal rular are appointed to be vnder his cure / not to be subiect to him as to their highest lord & prince / but that thei shuld lyke christen men lyue together with him lyke brethern & felows of the same degre / lyke as the old councels & the tyme of cypriane do euydently declare.
But now there is no bishop in the world that dare call the pope / brother / as they did commonly in those days
But now there is no bisshop in the world that dare call the pope / brother / as thei did comonly in those dayes