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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.
For heaven, earth,1 Sun, Stars, air and all creatures can no longer bear the wickedness of the world, which they are constrained to behold, unto whom it is grievous to serve to the use, or rather to the abuse of sinners, & are an aid to the wickedness of the devil. And therefore they would gladly be delivered of this filthy bondage, and be made a new heaven, and a new earth: as Peter, and the Prophet Isaiah2 saith, in y• which only righteousness shall dwell. For iniquity and the wickedness of man passeth all measure: so that it can not be suffered any longer. And therefore all things are moved (as now we ⟨image 42⟩see) crying (as it were) unto God for their deliverance.
For heauen, earth,1 Sunne, Starres, ayre and all creatures can no lenger beare the wickednes of the world, which they are constrayned to behold, vnto whom it is greuous to serue to the vse, or rather to the abuse of sinners, & are an ayde to the wickednes of the deuil. And therefore they would gladly bee deliuered of thys fylthy bondage, and be made a new heauen, and a new earth: as Peter, and the Prophet Esay2 sayth, in y• which onely rightuousnes shall dwell. For iniquitie and the wi•kednes of man passeth all measure: so that it can not be suffred any longer. And therfore all thynges are moued (as now we ⟨image 42⟩see) crying (as it were) vnto God for their deliueraunce.
- 1A mind & speech attributed to creatures without life. Esa. •4 23. and not properly but figuratively▪ as when we say the earth doth praise the Lord, that is to say, it doth declare his wondrous works, and the workmanship thereof ministereth a man matter to praise the Lord: so it desireth y last day, that is to say, it being accursed daily more and more for our sin, showeth our miserable estate, and what cause we have to lament and to desire our deliverance by the coming of our saviour to judgement.