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Special and chosen sermons of D. Martin Luther collected out of his writings and…
Special and chosen sermons of D. Martin Luther collected out of his writings and preachings for the necessary instruction and edification of such, as hunger and seek after the perfect knowledge and inestimable glory which is in Christ Jesus, to the comfort and salvation of their souls. Englished by VV.G.Special and chosen sermons of D. Martin Luther collected out of his writings and preachings for the necessary instruction and edification of such, as hunger and seeke after the perfect knowledge and inestimable glorie which is in Christ Iesu, to the comfort and saluation of their soules. Englished by VV.G.
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier, 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.
Of these judgers of other Christ speaketh in the Gospel when he saith: Can the blind lead the blind? 1shall they not both fall into the ditch? The disciple is not above his master: but who soever will be a perfect disciple, shall be as his master. And why seest thou a mote in thy brothers eye, and considerest not the beam, that is in thine own eye? either how canst thou say to ⟨p. 180⟩thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beam that is in thine own eye first, & then shalt thou see perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye. As if he said: thou thinkest that thy brother is blind, and in thy mind doest find fault with an other, that is, thou wilt guide an other, when notwithstanding thou thy self art blind. Thou judgest him a sinner, & thy self an honest & just man. What other thing is this, than for thy heart to be so affected, that thou count thy self better? Which is nothing else, then that thou wilt lead & guide other, when thou thy self art blinder than a mole, so that he which followeth thee, doth fall with thee into the ditch. Of such as judge themselves to excel others, & think themselves to be followed more than the word of God, S. Paul speaketh Rom. 2: Behold (saith he) thou art called a Jew, & restest in the law, & gloriest in God, & knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the law, & persuadest thy self, that thou art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of them which lack discretion, a teacher of the unlearned, which hast the form of knowledge, & of the truth in the law. Thou therefore which teachest an other teachest thou not thy self? thou that preachest, A man should not steal, doest thou steal? thou that sayest, A man should not commit adultery, doest thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, committest thou sacrilege? thou that gloriest in the law through breaking the law, dishonourest thou God? Whereupon he also saith in the beginning of the same chapter to hypocrites: Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, who soever thou art, that condemnest: for in that that thou condemnest an other, thou condemnest thy self: for thou that condemnest doest the same things.