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[A methodical preface prefixed before the epistle to the Romans ...] Made[A methodicall preface prefixed before the epistle to the Romanes ...] Made
[A methodical preface prefixed before the epistle to the Romans ...] Made by the right reverend father in and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, Martin Luther ...[A methodicall preface prefixed before the epistle to the Romanes ...] Made by the right reuerend father in and faithfull seruant of Christ Iesus, Martin Luther ...
London : s.n., 1632
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.
A Methodical Preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans, written by Martin Luther: and Englished by W. W.
A Methodicall Preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans, written by Martin Luther: and Englished by W. W.
Seeing that this Epistle of St. Paul written unto the Romans, is the Method of the whole Scripture, and the most absolute Epitome or Abridgement of the new Testament, that is, of the Gospel (which verily alone it •oth briefly and most purely •et out unto us) I account it worthy not only of all Christians to be known from their ⟨image 5⟩childhood,1 yea & learned without the book, word by word: but also (being by daily and continual meditation as it were chewed and concocted) even as well digested meat to descend and enter into our innermost bowels. This Epistle is such a rich treasury of spiritual wealth, and as it were a most plentiful Copiae Cornu, that he that readeth it a thousand times shall always meet with some new thing not perceived before. In so much that the reading of this Epistle is most profitable of all other, because it doth, as it were ascend higher in the doctrine of holy things, in the knowledge of Christ in learning the nature of faith, and in the knowledge of all spi••••al affections: yea, the more it is ⟨image 5⟩•andled, the greater it groweth more pleasant and delightful, more precious and plenteous it howeth and seemeth then beore. Wherefore I thought it abour well bestowed, if (according to that measure of grace which I have received of God) I might put to my helping hand, and by this brief Preface prepare an entry into it: to the end that it might more easily and plainly be read and understood of all. Chiefly knowing that this Epistle (which one alone ought to be accounted the Index and Method of all the Scriptures) hath been so obscured and darkened by certain mens foolish Commentaries Glosses, and vain subtleties, that very few Writers in many ages past have perceived