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A methodical preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans very…A methodicall preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes very…
A methodical preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans very necessary and profitable for the better understanding of it / made by the right reverend father and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, Martin Luther ; now newly translated out of Latin into English, by W.W. ...A methodicall preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes very necessary and profitable for the better vnderstandyng of it / made by the right reuerend father and faythfull seruant of Christ Iesus, Martin Luther ; nowe newly translated out of Latin into English, by W.W. ...
Imprinted at London : For Thomas Woodcocke, dwelling in Pauls Churchyard, at the sign of the Black Bear, 1594?Imprinted at London : For Thomas Woodcocke, dwellyng in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare, 1594?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Upon these Paul inferreth in his second Chapter, that all the Jews (although in external works they make semblance to fulfil the Law) are sinners and transgressors of the Law. For (saith he) not the hearers of the law, but the doers thereof shall be accounted just before God. Whereby he doth intimate unto us, that no man can fulfil the Law by doing the outward work. Thou sayest, 1that a man should not commit adultery, and yet thou thy self committest adultery. In this that thou judgest another, thou condemnest thine own self. For thou that judgest, doest the very same things. As if he should say, Thou in deed after a glorious kind of hypocrisy, walkest in the external works of the Law, and thou judgest others which walk not so. In deed thou teachest other men, and thou seest a mote in thy neighbours eye: but thou seest not the beam which is in thine own eye. For though thou seem to fulfil the Law in thy external actions, either for fear of punishment, or for love of thy self: yet notwithstanding thou dost ⟨image 6⟩all these things with an unwilling mind, with an hard stubborn hart, without all love and good affection toward God and his law. Insomuch that thou haddest rather there were neither Law nor law giver at all: that so thy lust and concupiscence might not be repressed.
Vppon these Paul inferreth in his second Chapter, that all the Iewes (although in externall workes they make semblance to fulfyl the Law) are sinners and transgressors of the Law. For (saith he) not the hearers of the law, but the doers therof shal be accoūted iust before God. Wherby he doth intimate vnto vs, that no man can fulfyll the Law by doing the outward worke. Thou sayst, 1that a man should not commit adultry, and yet thou thy selfe committest adultry. In this that thou iudgest another, thou condemnest thyne owne self. For thou that iudgest, doest the very same thyngs. As if he should say, Thou in deede after a glorious kynd of hypocrisie, walkest in the external works of the Law, and thou iudgest others which walke not so. In deede thou teachest other men, and thou seest a mote in thy neighbours eye: but thou seest not the beame which is in thine own eye. For though thou seeme to fulfyll the Law in thy externall actions, eyther for feare of punishment, or for loue of thy self: yet notwithstanding thou dost