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A word in season
A word in season: being the commentary of Dr. Martin Luther, on three selected Psalms: viz. the CXXIVth, CXXVth, and CXXIXth. With his commentary on some part of the fourth and fifth chapters of the First Epistle of St. Peter. Being of special use for the present times.
London: printed by George Larkin, 1685
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Verse 8. Neither they which go by say, We bless you in the name of the Lord.
This also commendeth and setteth forth unto us the similitude of the grass. For true Corn hath this commendation, that it is the blessing of God. They therefore which see it grow, wish that God would bless and prosper it. This (saith David) shall not be said of that grass; that is to say, of the Tyrants and the adversaries of the Church, but rather they shall be cursed ⟨p. 44⟩of all men, yea the malediction both of God and man shall be heaped upon them: Like as it hath also happened to the Church of Rome, which before our doctrine and preaching most gloriously flourished. But now that the Gospel hath plucked away her visor, and showeth that she is not without fruit, all her cursed hypocrisy is bewrayed, and her memory is perished from among the godly. Thus the Prophet comforteth the faithful, and showeth that the wicked (what glorious brag and pretence soever they make) are indeed nothing, and because God blesseth them not, they shall inherit nothing but malediction, and shall be confounded, like as Judas; the Pharisees, Corinthus, Arius, and Pelagius, though they seemed to flourish, most miserably perished with all their glory.
This also commendeth and setteth forth unto us the similitude of the grass. For true Corn hath this commendation, that it is the blessing of God. They therefore vvhich see it grovv, vvish that God vvould bless and prosper it. This (saith David) shall not be said of that grass; that is to say, of the Tyrants and the adversaries of the Church, but rather they shall be cursed ⟨p. 44⟩of all men, yea the malediction both of God and man shall be heaped upon them: Like as it hath also hapned to the Church of Rome, which before our doctrine and preaching most gloriously flourished. But now that the Gospel hath plucked away her visour, and sheweth that she is not without fruit, all her cursed hypocrisy is bewrayed, and her memory is perish'd from among the godly. Thus the Prophet comforteth the faithful, and sheweth that the wicked (what glorious brag and pretence soever they make) are indeed nothing, and because God blesseth them not, they shall inherit nothing but malediction, and shall be confounded, like as Judas; the Pharisees, Corinthus, Aius, and Pelagius, though they seemed to slourish, most miserably perished with all their glory.