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A right comfortable treatise containing fourteen points of consolation for them that labour and…A right comfortable treatise containing fourteene pointes of consolation for them that labor and…
A right comfortable treatise containing fourteen points of consolation for them that labour and are laden: Written by D. Martin Luther to Prince Frederick Duke of Saxony, he being sore sick, thereby to comfort him in the time of his great distress. Englished by W. Gace.A right comfortable treatise containing fourteene pointes of consolation for them that labor and are laden: VVritten by D. Martin Luther to Prince Friderik Duke of Saxonie, he being sore sicke, thereby to comfort him in the time of his great distresse. Englished by W. Gace.
London: printed by Thomas Vautrollier, 1578
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.
The seventh chapter of the seventh consideration, which is of the good above us.
The seuenth chapter of the seuenth consideration, which is of the good aboue vs.
I Speak nothing of the eternal and heavenly good things which the blessed enjoy in the manifest sight of God, or at the least I speak of them in faith, 1and as they may be comprehended of us. So this seventh consideration is of Jesus Christ, the King of glory, raised from the dead: as the seventh consideration of evils was of him suffering, dead, and buried. Here we may see the chief joy of our hart, and certain and sure good things: here is no evil at all, because Christ being raised from ⟨p. 80⟩the dead, dyeth no more: death hath no more dominion over him. This is the furnace of love, and the fire of God in Zion, as Isaiah saith. For Christ is borne unto us, and not only that, but also given unto us. Wherefore his resurrection is mine, and all things that he hath wrought thereby. And as the Apostle most notably glorieth Rom. 8: Howe shall he not with him give us all things? But what hath he wrought by rising again? He hath destroyed sin, set up righteousness, swallowed up death, & restored life: overcome hell, and purchased eternal glory. These things are inestimable, so that the mind of man dare scarce believe, that they are given unto him: as Jacob Gen. 45