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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 second chapter of the second consideration, which is of the evil to come or before a man.
The second chapter of the second consideration, which is of the euill to come or before a man.
IT will not a little lighten every present evil, if thou turn thy mind to them that are to come, which are so many, such, & so great, that hereunto alone is referred that great and one of the principal affections which is called fear, 1which some define to be an affection of the evil to come, according as the Apostle saith Rom. 11: Be not hie minded but fear. 2This evil is so much greater, as it is more uncertain, of what sort and how great it will be when it come, so that it is a common saying: There is no age to whom the scab may not come, which notwithstanding is an evil that is wont to happen to children and infants. So that no ⟨p. 7⟩man is free and exempt from any evils of any man, but whatsoever one man suffereth, the same also may an other suffer.
IT will not a litle lighten euery present euill, if thou turne thy mind to them that are to come, which are so many, such, & so great, that hereunto alone is referred that great and one of the principall affections which is called feare, 1which some define to be an affection of the euill to come, according as the Apostle saith Rom. 11: Be not hie minded but feare. 2This euil is so much greater, as it is more vncertaine, of what sort and how great it wilbe when it come, so that it is a common saying: There is no age to whom ye scabb may not come, which notwithstanding is an euill that is wont to happen to children and infants. So that no