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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.
Wherefore death is now dead to the faithful, and hath nothing terrible but only a certain semblance and appearance. 1No otherwise then a serpent that is slain, in outward form and appearance he is cerrible as before, but in very deed it is only a seeming or appearance of evil, the evil it self is now dead and harmless. Yea as in the 21. chapter of Numb. God commanded a brazen serpent to be set up, by the sight whereof the living serpents did perish: so also our death by faithful and steadfast beholding of the death of Christ, doth perish, and only appeareth terrible, but can not hurt us in very deed. So doth the mercy of God aforehand exercise us that are weak, with these goodly figures or semblances, that forasmuch as death can not be taken away, he may at the least make the force thereof to be nothing but in outward show and appearance only, for which cause also death in the Scriptures is called sleep rather then death.
Wherefore death is nowe deade to the faithful, and hath nothing terrible but onely a certaine semblance and appearance. 1No otherwise then a serpent that is slaine, in outwarde forme and appearance he is cerrible as before, but in very deede it is onely a seeming or appearance of euil, the euill it selfe is nowe dead and harmelesse. Yea as in the 21. chapter of Numb. God commaunded a brasen serpent to be set vp, by the sight wherof the liuing serpents did perish: so also our death by faithfull and stedfast beholding of the death of Christ, doth perish, and onely appeareth terrible, but can not hurt vs in very deede. So doth the mercye of God aforehande exercise vs that are weake, with these goodly figures or semblances, that forasmuch as death cā not be taken away, he may at ye least make the force thereof to be nothing but in outward shew and appearance only, for which cause also death in the Scriptures is called sleepe rather then death.
- 1Death can not hurt the faithfulDeath can not hurte the faithful