A88660:9
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Reader,
IT would be an unaccountable Presumption for me to commend to thy good Opinion the Author of the Commentary on the Psalms, and that part of St. Peters First Epistle, presented to thee in the following Sheets. If thou art a Protestant Christian, and indifferently acquainted with Authors, thou must acknowledge Dr. Martin Luther, a Worthy of the First Rank next the Apostles, if not the First also in that Rank; or stand by thy self, as some odd single Exception, from the stream of thy Profession. But if thou art a Roman Catholic, and so of a Denomination as contradictory to it self, as thy Papal Principles are to Truth, Reason, Sense, and Humane Society, I must not hope the Authors Name (than which, to those of thy Profession, none is more abhorred) will commend his Work to thy Perusal, much less thy Embraces.
IT would be an unaccountable Presumption for me to commend to thy good Opinion the Author of the Commentary on the Psalms, and that part of St. Peters First Epistle, presented to thee in the following Sheets. If thou art a Protestant Christian, and indifferently acquainted with Authors, thou must acknowledge Dr. Martin Luther, a Worthy of the First Rank next the Apostles, if not the First also in that Rank; or stand by thy self, as some odd single Exception, from the stream of thy Profession. But if thou art a Roman Catholick, and so of a Denomination as contradictory to it self, as thy Papal Principles are to Truth, Reason, Sence, and Humane Society, I must not hope the Authors Name (than which, to those of thy Profession, none is more abhorred) will commend his Work to thy Perusal, much less thy Embraces.
That mighty Opposition which this Worthy met with ⟨image 3⟩in his Successful Attempts of pulling down the Papal Power, was an Exercise for such a Faith and Courage as the God of all Grace had filled him withal: And the Commentaries following express as much of both, as any of his Numerous Tracts. And this considered, with the sad Parallel of our Present Confusions, and their Causes, with those of his Days; Those very Remedies (animated with the same Spirit) are with much reason proposed for thy Support, under our present Calamities; if not also, as of some Tendency towards a Cure.