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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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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
But even emperors & kings are fain to call the Pope their lord. which thing we neither will nor ought nor yet can we with a safe conscience condescend or grant unto it. Who so ever please to do it / he shall do it alone for us. Here up on it followeth that all such things as the pope hath done / made / or ordained / through his false / vain / wicked and usurped tyrannical pour / have been and be yet the arts and ordinances of the very devil / and purposely devised to the destruction of the holy universal Christen church ⟨image 15⟩(so much as lay in him) and to the overthrowing of the first principal article of the redemption of Jesus christ those ordinances only except which concern the politic state of the temporal common wealth / wherein god giveth also many good & wholesome things to the people divers times through tyrants and godless wretches
But euen emperors & kinges are fayne to call the Pope their lord. which thing we neither wil nor ought nor yet can we with a safe conscience condestend or grant vnto it. Who so erer please to do it / he shal do it alone for us. Here vp on it foloweth that all such things as the pope hath done / made / or ordeined / thorow his false / vayne / wicked and vsurped tyrannical pour / haue bene and be yet the artes and ordinances of the very deuel / and purposly deuysed to the destructyon of the holy vniuersal Christen church ⟨image 15⟩(so mach as lay in him) and to the ouerthrowing of the first principal article of the redempcyon of Iesus christ those ordinancys only except which concern the polytick state of the temporal comon welth / wherin god giueth also many good & holsom thīgs to the peple diuers times thorow tyrannys and godles wretchys