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A06502	A commentarie or exposition vppon the twoo Epistles generall of Sainct Peter, and that of Sainct Jude. First faithfullie gathered out of the lectures and preachinges of that worthie instrumente in Goddes Churche, Doctour Martine Luther. And now out of Latine, for the singuler benefite and comfort of the godlie, familiarlie translated into Englishe by Thomas Newton; Enarrationes in epistolas Divi Petri duas et Iudae unam. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1581 (1581)	STC 16978; ESTC S108928	231,904	387

Prophete emong theim as Moses was Wherevpon thei gather that this contention here mentioned by S. Iude arose because the Deuill would gladly haue had the bodie of Moses to bee manifestly knowen where it was to the intent the people might haue had occasion to committe Idolatrie thereby ministred vnto them Now albeit Michael were an Archangell yet durst be not saieth S. Iude rebuke hym with cursed speakyng and railyng Sentence But these blasphemous mouthes and peruerse persones are not ashamed to despise treade vnder foote and speake euill of the Powers whiche are ordained by God and to curse theim to the eight and ninth generation And whereas thei themselues are nothyng els then wretched Caitifes and seelie fraile Creatures yet see thei here that Michael one of the chiefest Angelles was afraied to curse and raile vpon the Deuill beyng a moste wicken Spirite Not daryng to saie any farther then The Lorde rebuke thee But these speake euill of those thinges whiche thei knowe not and what soeuer thynges thei knowe naturallie as beastes whiche are without reason in those thynges thei corrupt themselues THese kinde of persones be cursed speakers and blasphemous railers because thei haue skill of nothing but of Excommunicatyng Accur●ng deliuering ouer to Sathā not onely Kinges Princes Potentates and Powers but euen GOD hymself and his blessed Sainctes as in the Bull of the Supper of the Lorde is to be seen Thei knowe not that their Saluation consisteth in Faithe and Charitie Thei can not abide to haue their Woorkes dispraised reiected and condemned Neither will thei suffer any to preache to the people that wee muste onely looke for our Saluation by the Merites Death and Workes of Christ And therfore thei condemne Accurse Reuile and Blaspheme all true Christian doctrine wherein thei plainly discouer themselues how vtterly blinde and ignoraunt thei bee But those thynges whiche thei knowe by their owne naturall vnderstanding as Trentalles Masses and suche like Legierdemaine whiche filleth bothe their pouches and their paunches and bryngeth in store of pelfe m●n●y and wealth thereto thei whollie emploie themselues and therby carie bothe themselues and others into perdition Woe bee vnto them for the haue followed the waie of Cain CAin killed his brother for none other cause but for that his brother was iuster and godlier then hymself and for that God had more respect and greater delight in his brothers Sacrifice then he had in his Therefore the waie of Cain is to trust in our owne Workes and to renounce and reiecte those Workes that bee true and good Workes in deede Finallie to murther and slaie all those that walke in the truthe and in the tight waie Whiche nature and practise wee see the Papistes most earnestly with tooth and naile daiely to put in vre And are cast awaie by the deceit of Balaams wages THei should bee inwardly hidden with Christ in an assured trust and confidence of Gods diuine grace but thei licentiously breake out and actually dispose themselues into sundrie sortes of externall and outward Workes and doe all thinges for greedinesse of gaine and pecuniarie reward to fill their beallies after the example of the Prophete Balaam as was declared in the seconde Chapter of the second Epistle of S. Peter aforegoyng And perishe in the gainsaiyng of Core OF the sedicious rebellion of Core and how he with his wicked confederates was swallowed into the Earth wee reade in the fourth Booke of Moses Chapt. xvj Moses was appoincted and called of God to this ende that he should bryng and conducte the people of Israell out of Egypt and his brother Aaron to bee the high Priest This Core beyng also of the same Tribe and Familie and ambielously aspiryng to cary some high aucthoritie adioyned vnto hym twoo hundred and fiftie Captaines of the beste and moste renoumed emong all the people with whom he raised vp suche a mutinous faction and seditious Tumulte that brought all the companie into an vprore and welnere caused Moses and Aaron to flee and giue place to their furie But Moses fallyng doune vppon his face praied vnto the Lorde that hee should not looke vnto their offryng and Sacrifice and when he had spoken to the people that thei should separate themselues and departe from the companie of those wicked conspiratours he saied Hereby ye shal knowe whether the Lord hath sent me or no. If these men dye the common death of all men or if they bee visited after the visitation of all men the Lorde hath not sent me But if the Lorde make a newe thyng and the Earth open her mouthe and swallowe downe these men quicke into the pitte then ye shall vnderstande that these men haue blasphemed and prouoked the Lorde And assoone as he had made an ende of speakyng all these woordes euen the grounde claue asunder thas was vnder them and the Earth opened her mouthe and swallowed them vp with their families and all the men that were with Core and all their goodes So thei and al that thei had went doune aliue into the pitte and the Earth couered them And there came out a Fier frō the Lorde whiche consumed the twoo hundred and fiftie men that had adioyned themselues to Core and offred Incense This Example doeth sainct Iude bryng against these our horrible and blasphemous Popelynges who charge vs to bee the Aucthours of Sedicion and mutinie when wee preache against theim whereas in deede it is thei that are the causers of all garboile and trouble For Christ is our Aaron and high Priest whom onely we ought to heare and acknowledge for the Bishoppe of our Soules But that can not the Pope and his greazed Bishoppes abide for thei aduaunce themselues alofte and chalenge to theim all domination and power and flatly oppose themselues against Christe These beeyng altogether drouned and buried in Earthly conuersation and pleasure and beeyng the verie worlde it self doeth S. Iude compare and resemble to Core and his companions whom God straungely punished so that the grounde opened and swallowed them vp aliue These are Spottes in your feastes of Charitie whē thei feast with you without all feare feedyng them selues Clouds thei are without water caried about of windes corrupt Trees and without fruite twise dead and plucked vp by the rootes Thei are the ragyng waues of the Sea fomyng out their owne shame Thei are wand●yng Staires to whom is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer ALL this wee haue alreadie heard largelie discoursed in the Epistle of S. Peter The greater parte of Christendome hath trained and brought vp their children to the order of Priesthoode and for none other cause but to liue idlie and delicately without any labour of their owne handes or trouble of preachyng Voluptuouslie enioiyng and spendyng at their owne ease and pleasure those goodes whiche poore men painfullie gotte in the sweate of their browes Thei are among the common people reputed and taken for the worthiest Pillers as it were the Iewelles and ornamentes of

A COMMENtarie or Exposition vppon the twoo Epistles generall of Sainct Peter and that of Sainct JVDE First faithfullie gathered out of the Lectures and Preachinges of that worthie Instrumente in Goddes Churche Doctour Martine Luther And now out of Latine for the singuler benefite and comfort of the Godlie familiarlie translated into Englishe by Thomas Newton ¶ Imprinted at London for Abraham Veale dwellyng in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Lābe 1581. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HOnourable Sir Thomas Bromeley Knight one of her Maiesties moste honourable priuie Counsell and Lorde Chauncelor of Englande THE translation of these godlie and comfortable Commentaries of Maister Luther vpon the Epistles generall of the blessed Apostles Peter and Jude beeyng fullie finished and brought to an ende it was the easiest matter of many where to bethink mee of a fitte Patrone vnder whom to shield the labours of so worthie an Organe in the Churche of God and myne owne trauailes therein suche as thei bee frō the rancorous rout of suche bawlyng Baalites and arrogant Apistes as with open Iawes will bee readie to barke at the sounde doctrine of Faithe and Maners by hym heerein with a moste bolde spirite maintained and vttered I was I saie soone resolued with my self to settle my choise in your Lordshippe of whose cheerefull acceptaunce suche is your Godlie zeale J could not any whitte doubte And of whose courteous construction of my honest and harmelesse meanyng heerein suche is your honourable inclination J deemed it almoste hainous to put any diffidence or to harbour within mee so muche as a sparke or Mite of the leaste suspition None so wilfullie blinde nor so witleslie bee sotted but hath bothe seene and knowen what a generall benefite it pleased the Lorde in mercie to shewe vnto the worlde beeyng almoste whollie whelmed in the Suddes of Superstition and desperatelie drowned in the Dregges of Jdolatrie by the ministerie of this one man opposyng hymself in defence of the glorious Gospell of GOD againste all the Pedlarie of Pope and Popelynges and againste all the rable of Cozenyng Caterpillers in the Kyngdome of Darkenesse characterized and brended with the marke of the Beast The triflyng trashe and ridiculous rifferaffe of whiche Cacolike Synagogue for so is it muche rather to bee tearmed then Catholike this man with so vehement and zealous a spirite hath so throughlie anatomized and vnripped ● by suche ineuitable reasons out of the infallible VVorde of God ouerthrowen and confuted that the rotten ragges thereof can not possiblie bee eft soones peeced The crackte credite of suche Motheaten stuffe neuer againe salued nor the totteryng walles of suche a roistyng and ruffianly raigne euer any more after the former galantise be reared vp reestablished In so muche that it maie bee thought that our mercifull God pitiyng the miserable thraldome wherin his people vnder that Romishe Pharao had long laine captiued and in his Justice meanyng at length to ridde the worlde of those deade Flies whiche did nothyng els but corrupte and tainte sweete Ointmentes and as it were to launce those Botches and Biles that so long had festured in the bodie of the Common wealthe of Jsraell appointed and raised vp this man to bee as the Malle that should knocke that blasphemous Goliah in the pate and the Leeche that should applie vnto him his greazed generatiō suche a strong Pill whiche thei should neuer bee able to swallowe His life also conuersation beyng so vnblameable that the starkest Balaamite and spightfullest Rabbine emong them of whiche stampe there neuer wanteth stoare could neuer iustlie reprooue hym of faultes other then suche as generally followe the infirmitie of Man Jn so muche as that reuerend and renoumed Clerke Erasmus whose testimonie herein maie stande for many and the rather for that he somewhat to muche the more pitie for priuate respectes bolstered and plastered the deformities and blottes of the Romishe Clergie pleasauntly by waie of answere to a question mooued vnto hym by the good Duke of Saxony saied that the onely reason why poore Luther was so deadly hated was for none other cause but for that by his preaching and writing hee had taken awaie the Croune from the Pope and Bishoppes and the Beallie from the Monkes and that otherwise he was bothe a Godlie a learned a vertuous and a modest man Jn the compassyng and atchieuyng whereof little meruaile was it though in his Style and maner of writyng he seemed to some to bee ouer crabbed seuere sharpe and bityng For saied he to remooue sharpe grosse diseases God hath sent in this laste age of the VVorlde a sharpe austere Phisition And as wee reade of the Repairers of Battered Hierusalem that with the one hande thei builte the VValles and with the other helde their sweard to bee readie to encounter the enemie So maie wee saie of Luther that he with the one halfe of his studie combated and conflicted with the Aduersaries of Gods truthe and with the other halfe generallie benefited the Churche by pennyng writing sundrie notable enarrations vpon the Sacred Scriptures and Catholique Religion How valiauntlie also hee plaied the Christian Champion againste Meritemongers and all Clouters vp of their Saluation with the Figgeleaues of their owne wretched VVoorkes and condignitie and what an vndaunted Hercules he shewed hymself in choppyng of still those succreasyng heades of that Jtalian Hydra sundrie his learned Bookes plentifullie and at large declare and this VVoorke emong many others doeth sufficientlie attestifie The whiche with all humilitie J heere offer and exhibite vnto your lordship assuring my self that for your approued wisedome you will not onely allowe of it but also for the high Authoritie wherein you are worthilie placed you will accordyngly countenaunce it The Lorde from heauen blesse and strengthen you with his Spirite of zeale fortitude and boldnesse to be a Buttresse and Proppe for the propagation passage and continuaunce of his glorious Gospell emong vs your poore Countreimen of this noble Realme of Englande to the encoragement of all true Professours of the same and to the vtter terrour extirpation and weedyng out of all cancarde aduersaries and malicious Grinnagods beyng not onelie prickes in the feete and Thornes in the eyes but euen splintes in the handes and Daggers at the hartes of all the godlie That by the prudent pollicie and carefull vigilancie of your Honour with others her Maiesties moste Noble and zelous Counsellours all dolledrenche Drones maie bee espied and caste out of the Hiue of the Common wealthe and either bee conuerted least vtterly thei perishe or spedily confounded least thei procure and breed more treacherous annoiance From Butley in Chesshire this first of October 1581. Your L. moste humble Thomas Newton The argument of this first Epistle of S. Peter by M. Luther ¶ Before wee fall in hande with the interpretation of this Epistle it shall bee verie requisite first to laye downe vnto the Reader some briefe admonition whereby he may knowe bothe how it

Will not here define whether in this place S. Peter speake of an outwarde Incontinencie or no or whether he doe as Sainct Paules order is call all those thynges Fleshly whiche a man yet liuyng in this bodie and carnall life committeth and dooeth without Faithe But I am of opinion that S. Peter in this place vseth an other maner of reason Neither doe I thinke that he taketh this worde Soule in suche a sense as Sainct Paule doeth who taketh it for Spirite But that he somewhat more déepely as I suppose considered the proprietie of the Greeke Howebeit it is not greatly materiall whether a man vnderstande this place as meant of all carnall affections or els onely of an externall and outwarde intemperaunce This profitable lesson notwithstanding is hereby taught vs that no man in this life can be perfectly holie and throughly pure from sinnes This place the Schoole men haue grossely mistaken rouyng farre wide from the true meanyng thereof For thei thinke it to bee onely spoken and meant of theim that bee Sinners As though the holie ones were cleare without all euill lustes and carnall affections But he that will profitablie searche and read the Scriptures must with iudgement and discretion waigh and throughly sifte the nature sense and signification of euery woorde for the Prophetes vse sometymes so to speake of them that be holie as that thei seme to pronounce theim pure and altogether cleare from all maner of Sinnes Againe sometymes thei so speake of theim as that thei confesse theim yet to haue euill affections corrupt motions and to fight against Synne This diuersitie and varietie that in apparaunce seemeth to bee in theim marueilouslie grauelleth and offendeth these greate Rabbines and wonderfullie blindeth their Senses from rightlie vnderstandyng the true meanyng of the Scriptures Thus therefore staye thou thy self and for thy sure conceiuyng of this and suche like places bee at this resolution Thou oughtest to consider Christians after twoo sortes namely accordyng to their inwarde and hidden life to witte Faithe and also accordyng to their outwarde and open life that is to saie the Fleshe Now if thou consider and respecte a Christian accordyng to Faithe he is all pure and without all filthe and vncleannesse but after the flesh he is not so For the woorde of GOD can abide no vncleane thyng to reste in that harte where it is throughlie and faithfullie receiued so that the harte whiche faste cleaueth vnto the Woorde can not but thereby bee throughlie purged and entirely cleansed Therefore in faithe all thynges are perfecte accordyng to that saiyng afore wherein wee are sayed to hee Kynges Priestes and the peculier People of GOD. But for so muche as wee hauyng Faithe are as yet cladde in this fleshe and dwell on this Earth it can not bee but that now and then wee feele within our selues sundrie corrupt and Earthly affections as Impacience feare of Deathe c. And these bee the diseases remainyng yet of the old Manne For Faithe hath not yet here raught to hir perfection nor gotten a full power ouer the fleshe This maiest thou plainlie and euidentlie vnderstande by the Parable Luke x. of a certaine man Who goyng doune from Hierusalem to Hiericho fell among Theeues who robbed hym of his raimente and wounded hym verie sore and departyng lefte hym halfe dead on whom in the ende a certaine Samaritane tooke compassion boūd vp his woundes powred in Oile and Wine sett hym on his owne beaste and brought hym to an Inne and made prouision for hym Here thou seest that this man was cared for his cure prouided for anone after he was wounded and now beeyng out of daunger of Death was lefte sicke in deede but not vnto Death howbeeit he was not as yet fullie healed and cured His life is preserued and he left aliue but yet is he not come to his perfecte healthe he is lefte in the charge of the Phisitious to bee cured and dressed afterward Euen so wee that beleeue haue Christ all and entire and are assured of eternall life but our perfecte and consummate healthe wee haue not yet obteined for some reliques of the old Adam remaineth yet still within vs. To the same purpose serueth that other Parable mentioned by Christe Matth. xiij The Kyngdome of heauen is like vnto Leauen whiche a woman taketh and hideth in three Peckes of Meale till all bee leauened For when the Meale is begonne to bee kneaded the Leauen is all there but it hath not yet sowred and pearced the whole lumpe of Dowe the mixture is not yet fullie perfected yet the Meale is therein still till it bee fullie Leauened and more Leauen maie not bee put vnto it So also whatsoeuer thou oughtest to haue thou haste it alreadie by Faithe whereby thou haste taken holde of the Worde and embraced it but it hath not yet throughlie soaked and pearced into thee and therefore it needes must bee so long in woorkyng vntill thou be whollie renewed And in this sort oughtest thou to discerne and interprete the Scripture And not so to Iumble and mangle the textes thereof as dooe the Papistes Therefore when in the Scriptures thou readest of holie meime that are saied to bee perfecte thou must thus vnderstande it that accordyng to Faithe thei were altogether pure and without synne But all the reste was fleshe and therfore could not bee entierly cleane Wherevpon Christians in their praiers desire to bee dissolued and ridde of this bodie or fleshe that thei maie whollie attaine to an entire puritie Thei that other wise teache neither haue any feelyng nor yet any sounde taste of the same And therevpon it commeth to passe that thei speake euen as thei thinke within themselues and as thei can comprehende by their owne reason and therefore thei can not choose but bee deceiued This hath been a stumblyng blocke to many yea of them that haue been accoumpted worthie and famous for their holinesse and sanctimonie and who haue taught and written verie muche Origene speaketh not one worde hereof in his Bookes Hierome neuer vnderstoode thē Augustine also would haue had small knowledge thereof if he had not so much buckled with the Pelagians Some whē thei speake of holie men thei so muche extol and dignifie them as though either thei had been of some higher degree and excellencie then other Christians or els as though thei had had no feelyng of this Flesh or as though thei had not complained thereof aswel and as muche as wee Therefore saieth Sainct Peter You are all cleane and haue your full righteousnesse there now remaineth nothyng for you but y t you stoutly fight againste these wicked and naughtie affections And so also speaketh Christe Iohn xiij He that is washed needeth not sauyng onely to washe his feete For it is not enough that the heade and handes bee cleane and therefore albeeit he saie that thei are all cleane yet neuerthelesse he requireth theim to washe their feete But what meanyng hath Saincte Peter