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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.
But the present deed and example of Christ should be thought upon, who although he had bin without meat forty days and so many nights, yet was he not quite forsaken and left destitute, but the Angels at the last came, and ministered all things necessary unto him.
But the present deede and example of Christ should be thought vpon, who although he had bin without meate fortie dayes and so many nights, yet was he not quite forsaken and left destitute, but the Angels at the last came, and ministred all thinges necessarie vnto him.
Thirdly, we may see here how Christ meeteth with this tentation of the belly, and overcometh it. He seeth nothing in deed but stones and that which can not be eaten, therefore from those things that were before his eyes he removeth his mind to the word of God, thereby both strengthening himself, and overthrowing the Devil. On which word Christians,1 especially when poverty presseth them, and all things seem to be turned into stones, and the mind doth now tremble for fear of hunger, ought with a strong faith to lay hold, and answer the tentation that would quite discourage them: What if the whole world were full of bread? yet doth not man live by bread alone, there is need of an other thing, that is, of the word of God. Now forasmuch as these words are of marvellous force and efficacy, we must a little stand upon them, and endeavour to declare them, & not lightly pass them over. These words therefore Christ took out of ⟨p. 342⟩the first book of Moses chap. 8. where Moses speaketh thus unto the Israelites:2 The Lord thy God humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with Manna, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew of, to make thee know that a man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord. Which is as much as if he had said: Whereas he suffered thee to hunger, and yet thou didst not perish, thou mayst thereby easily know, that it is God which sustaineth thee by his word even without bread. For if we did live and were nourished by bread alone, it were necessary that we should be always filled with bread. But it is the word of God that nourisheth us, which he will have preached, that we may know that he is our God, and that he will show himself bountiful and gracious unto us.