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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
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¶ Signs, and wonders signifying alteration, or misery and calamity of certain Countries, and Nations, or of great Personages.
¶ Signes, and wonders signifiyng alteration, or misery and calamity of certaine Countreys, and Nations, or of great Personages.
About the year from the beginning of the world. 3458. Tarquinius, surnamed Superbus the seventh King of the Romans, was deprived of his kingdom by his subjects, and thrust out by force of arms, and the state of governance altered, from the government of one monarch, unto ij. yearly offices called Consuls: a little before which time in signification thereof (as Historiographers do write) a Dog did speak, and a Serpent •id bark. T. Plinius lib. 8. Cap. 41.
ABout the yeare from the begynnyng of the world. 3458. Tarquinius, surnamed Superbus the seuēth Kyng of the Romanes, was depriued of his kyngdome by hys subiectes, and thrust out by force of armes, and the state of gouernaunce altered, from the gouernement of one monarche, vnto ij. yearely offices called Consuls: a little before which time in signification thereof (as Historiographers do write) a Dogge did speake, and a Serpent •id barke. T. Plinius lib. 8. Cap. 41.
The year from the beginning of the world. 3538. the light of the Sun was so taken away by an ellipse seen in Greece, that a man might see the Stars aswell at midday, as at midnight. Shortly afterwards followed y war, called the war of Peloponnesus which continued seven and twenty years. Thucydides.