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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.
Thou seest now as I think, what it is to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.1 To love God with all the heart, is to love God above all creatures, that is, although creatures be very amiable and dear unto me, and I take great delight in them, yet must I so love them, that I do contemn and forsake them, when my God and Lord requireth that of me.
Thou seest now as I thinke, what it is to loue God with all the heart, with all the soule, with all the mynde.1 To loue God with all the heart, is to loue God aboue all creatures, that is, although creatures be verie amiable and deare vnto me, and I take great delight in them, yet must I so loue them, that I do contemne and forsake them, when my God and Lord requireth that of me.
- 1What it is to love God with all the heart.What it is to loue God with all the heart.
To love God with all the soul,1 is to bestow our whole life & body at his pleasure, as if the love of creatures, or any tentation assail thee, or would overcome thee, thou mayst say: I will rather part from all these then I will forsake my God, whether he cast me of, either kill me, either drown me, or whatsoever through his permission shall come unto me, I had rather leave all things then him, I will depend on that my Lord, rather then upon all creatures, or upon any other thing whatsoever it be. Whatsoever I have and am, I will bestow, but him will I not forsake. The soul in the Scriptures signifieth the life of the body, & whatsoever is done by the five senses, as to eat, to drink, to sleep, to wake, to see, to hear, to smell, to taste, and whatsoever the soul worketh by the body.2