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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.
In tumults. He rehearseth tumults or seditions among the rest, not that it becometh us to teach or move them, who ought ⟨p. 331⟩to obey Magistrates, and with quietness to live obedient unto all in that which is good, as Paul teacheth Rom. 13, and Christ Matth. 22: Give unto Cesar those things that are Caesars: but that we must bear tumults of others, as also necessities, distresses, stripes, and imprisonments, which we must cause or procure unto none, but suffer being procured and laid upon us by others. Wherefore in the first place he setteth much patience, which surely moveth no sedition or tumult, but rather suffereth it, and appeaseth it, if it can. But in the mean season it singularly comforteth us at this time,1 when as tumults are commonly imputed unto us, for that this is incident to a Christian life, that for the preaching of the Gospel it is accused to raise sedition, which it rather suffereth being raised of other against the word of God. For as in time past Ahab accused the most holy Prophet Elijah of sedition, affirming that it was he that troubled Israel, when as he himself in deed did trouble it: so is it neither a shameful nor new thing, for us to be accused of the same when we preach the same word. Let us think when the enemies of God lay this reproach and slander upon us, that not only Elijah, not only the Apostles, but Christ himself was counted of the Jews a seditious fellow, & crucified, a title being written in three languages and put on the cross, that he should of all be counted as a seditious king of the Jews, which would have moved that people against Cesar, and adjoined them to himself, who in deed by word and example of his life taught nothing more than submission and obedience, and lived so that he was ready to profit and minister unto all. As for the rest whereof the Apostle here maketh mention, as patience, affliction, necessity, distress, stripes, prisons, labour, watchings, fasting, purity:
In tumults. He rehearseth tumults or seditions among the rest, not that it becommeth vs to teach or moue them, who ought ⟨p. 331⟩