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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.
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Wherefore then, in such miseries and calamities should we be greatly desirous of our life? And if I for mine own part had no great cause to desire the end of all things, yet the peril and danger of my brethren, scattered here and there in the world, ought to move me: for whose sake we have good cause heartily to pray for it, whose state is such (as we both hear & see) that they are constrained to suffer all manner of ignominy, reproach, slanderous words, both privily and openly, violent injury, and finally most grievous persecution what soever, with divers kinds of torments, cruelly handled, and put to death.
Wherfore then, in such miseries and calamities should we be greatly desirous of our lyfe? And if I for myne owne part had no great cause to desire the end of all things, yet the perill and daunger of my brethren, scattered here and there in the world, ought to moue me: for whose sake we haue good cause hartly to pray for it, whose state is such (as we both heare & see) that they are constrained to suffer all maner of ignominy, reproch, slaunderous wordes, both priuely and openly, violent iniury, and finally most greuous persecution what soeuer, with diuers kinds of tormentes, cruelly handled, and put to death.
For how many even in our days have we seen, partly burnt openly, or by some such means made away, partly put to death, privily ⟨image 35⟩and by traitorous means dispatched? There are many, besides the infinite number of holy men, which have been slain before our time, since the Ascension of our Saviour Christ, or rather since the beginning of the world. Whose blood being yet unrevenged, crieth for the coming of our Saviour to judgement: to the end they being restored to their bodies again, may have full fruition of the joys long looked for, and may be revenged of the world, as the revelation of John declareth: Where God comforteth them after this sort, saying: that they must rest for 1a little season, until the number 2