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A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our days made by the right…A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our dayes made by the right…
A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our days made by the right reverend father and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Martin Luther ; concerning the coming of our Saviour Christ to Judgement and the signs that go before the Last Day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospel appointed to be red in the church on the second Sunday in Advent ; and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certain notes in the margin.A very comfortable and necessary sermon in these our dayes made by the right reuerend father and faithfull seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther ; concerning the comming of our Sauior Christ to Iudgement and the signes that go before the Last Day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospell appointed to be red in the church on the second Sonday in Aduent ; and is now newly translated out of Latin into English and something augmented and enlarged by the translator with certaine notes in the margent.
London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570
The Sermon, or exposition of the Gospel.The Sermon, or exposition of the Gospell.
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 the mean season, although in the world we be tossed, vexed, and afflicted with many storms, through the intolerable wickedness1 of ungodly men: although they give us vinegar mixed with gall to drink, besides other daily misfortunes, as sickness, pestilence, dearth, & war, which are grievous to the body, or to the outward man: yet we must suffer and abide all these things with patience: ⟨image 27⟩We must be content to drink this bitter drink for a time, that y• 2sweet drink which hereafter shall be given us, may be the more pleasant to our taste, and that we may thereby be moved the more earnestly to pray for the coming of our true saviour: otherwise we should behave our selves like savage & wild men, which bereaved of their wit, have no perseverance of the danger that hangeth over their heads: even like the secure and careless world which knoweth not how to repent, yea we should be drowned in the desire and love of worldly honour, wealth and pleasure, & at the length cast of all care of Gods word, and utterly perish with the wicked world.
In the meane season, although in the world we be tossed, vexed, and afflicted with many stormes, thorow the intollerable wickednes1 of vngodly mē: although they geue vs vineger mixed with gall to drinke, bysides other dayly misfortunes, as sickenes, pestilence, dearth, & warre, which are greuous to the body, or to the outward man: yet we must suffer and abyde all these thynges with patience: ⟨image 27⟩We must be contēt to drinke this bitter drinke for a time, that y• 2swete drinke which hereafter shal be geuē vs, may be the more pleasant to our tast, and that we may therby be moued ye more earnestly to pray for the cōmyng of our true sauiour: otherwise we should behaue our selues like sauage & wild mē, which bereaued of their wyt, haue no perseuerance of the daunger that hāgeth ouer their heades: euen like the secure and carelesse world which knoweth not how to repent, yea we should be drowned in ye desire and loue of worldly honor, wealth and pleasure, & at the length cast of all care of Gods word, and vtterly perish with the wicked world.