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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.
The second is peace in earth. For,1 as where the glory of God is not, and where every one seeketh his own glory, there can not be peace, according as Solomon saith Proverb. 13. Among the proud there is ever strife: so contrariwise, where the glory of God is known, there true peace also must needs be. For why should they contend? why should they disagree, which do know every one of them, that they have no good thing of their own, but that all things which are, which they have, and which they are able to do, come from God, to whose power also they commit all things, they in the mean season being very well content, that they have God favourable unto them? Howe also can it be, that when one counteth nothing of him self and the things that be his, he should be so careful of him self and his things, that he should move contention with any because of them? Such believe ⟨p. 16⟩that Christ only is made all things unto them, him they think on, and for him alone they contend. Hereupon it certainly followeth, that there can be no contention or discord at all among true Christians:2 which manner of peace of Christians Isaiah declareth, & saith: No man shall do evil unto an other, no man shall destroy an other in my holy hill, that is, in the Church of Christ. The cause hereof he addeth next after: The earth is full of the knowledge of God, that is, for all know God, as to whom all good things do belong, and all their own things they confess to be nothing but sins, they may easily therefore have peace among them selves.3 Wherefore the same Isaiah saith in an other place: They shall break their swords into mattocks, & their spears to make scythes, and one shall not lift up a weapon against an other, neither shall they learn ro fight from thence forth. Hereupon Christ is called the king of peace, or the prince of peace, of whom Solomon was a figure, who is called peaceable. For Christ is truly called our king Solomon, that is, peaceable, which hath restored peace unto us inwardly with God through faith in him, and outwardly with our neighbours through love, whereby we live friendly with all men: and so by him we have peace every where both inwardly, and outwardly in the earth.