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A06490	A boke made by a certayne great clerke, agaynst the newe idole, and olde deuyll whiche of late tyme, in Misnia shulde haue ben canonysed for a saynt.; Wider den neuen Abgott un alten Teufel, der zu Meissen soll erhoben werden English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1534 (1534)	STC 16962; ESTC S106355	20,742	82

Saul dyd prophecye amonge the prophetes 1. Regū Saul dothe it folowe therfore that they muste nedes be sayntes yf the holye ghoste dyd speake or dyd worke suche maner thynges by them Wherfore before thextreme iudgement no mā ought of chrysten men to be iudged called a saīt as saynte Paule dothe teache in the .iiii. chapitre of the fyrst epistell to the Corinthianes whan he saythe Do not iudge any thynge before the tyme vntyll the lorde shal come whiche shall brynge to lyghte the thynges that are hydde in darkenes SPirytually syth we do know that Chryst and Paule haue prophecyed before that in these laste dayes so goodly so gaye painted myracles shuld be done that euen the verye electe chosen persones yf it were possyble shulde be begyled We ought to haue good opynyon of sayntes Nothynge dothe lette but that we may of a symple and a playne mynde accompt them for sayntes iudge of thē as one chrysten mā ought to thynke and iudge of another chrysten man But it is in no wyse to be receyued or suffered that we wyll be as sure of it as of an artycle of the faythe and hange vpon it so as the pope tyrannously with his Benno dothe requyre sauynge onely peraduenture of those whome god in scrypture hathe declared and pronounsed to be sayntes / of whiche sorte are the patryarkes the prophetes the apostelles and the dyscyples I do with a good wyll beleue that Elysabeth whiche was buryed at Magbrughe is a saynte I beleue the very same also of Augustyne of Hierome of Ambrobrose of Bernarde of Frauncyske but yet so that I wyll not leane and grounde vpon this belefe and defende it to the dethe For the certentie and the groundewarke of our faythe oughte to be fetched at the scrypture The certentye of our fayth and to be taken out of it And excepte it be expressyd ī the scrypture neyther the Pope no nor yet any Aungelles haue any power to make so moche as onelye one artycle of the faythe But hytherto we haue spoken suffycyentlye agaynst the deuylysshe worke Nowe it remayneth to speake somwhat besydes agaynst the deuylysshe wordes / to thentente that the sayde worke may be sette forthe to the comen people as it were in a table and so at the laste be dyspraysed For I am not ygnoraunt what maner sermones shall be made euery where throughe out Misnia and with what crafte they shall mocke and begyle the people to make them sette moche by theyr Idole and to open theyr purses wyde vnto blyssed Benno / that is to wytte to the profyte and be hofe of theyr owne belye / wherfore here I do faythfully with a chrysten mynde as I am boūden to do exhorte and monysshe all men as many as shal be present at suche sermones that they do not consydre onelye the outwarde apparaunce and the dysguysed face of the thynge but rather the thyng it selfe / and the verye foundacyon and groūde / I can gesse well ynoughe what maner roten foūdacyon of scripture they wyll laye vnder theyr deceytefull and false buyldyng and suche one dothe the bysshop of Misnia begynne to bost euen nowe in his wrytynge theffecte wherof is this Laudate dn̄m in sāctis suis That is to say prayse you god in his sayntes These laudes and praysynges doubtles they do stretch out very farre bothe in lengthe and bredthe affyrmynge also that this is laudynge and praysynge of god in his sayntes yf they be canonysed and called vpon by the prayours of men But thou who soeuer thou arte whiche doste here these sermones I praye the thynke yea knowe thou for a verye certentie that thou herest a lye the prynce and father of al lyes whose propretie is to paruerte the scryptures the worde of god For this place maketh agaynst the in asmoche as it is taken of the olde testament whā not onelye no saynt was yet in heuen prayed vnto but also it was cōmaunded that god onely shulde be called vpon and onely prayed vnto as hym selfe dothe wytnesse in the. xlix psalme sayenge Calle vpon me in the daye of trybulacyon and I shal delyuer the / and thou shalte honour me ANd therfore he wylleth also it to be preached of hym that he is the sauyour of men as it is wrytten in the .iiii. chapytre of the fyrste epystle to Timothe / and he doth also wytnesse in the xxxv psalme hym selfe to be preserued bothe of men and also of beastes Wherfore helthe saluacyon ought to be asked and de syred of none other sauyng onelye of hym Moreouer this place of the serypture dothe not speke of holye men or of holy women but rather of holye places / for thus it is redde after the verytie of the Hebrue texte Laudate dominum in sancto vel in sanctuario suo that is to say / prayse you the lorde in his sanctuarye or in his holy and deuoute place Lykewyse as it is wrytten in the .xix. The place of the psalme Laudate dominum in sanctis eius is declared expounꝭded psalme Emittat tibi auxiliū de sancto / the is to say helpe mought he sende the from his holy place and agayne in the .xxi. psalme Tu autem in sācto habitas that is to say thou dwellest in a holy place ANd lykewyse in many other places which are easy to be foūde here and there in the scrypture And in these wordes he wylleth vs to expresse fulfyl the maner of honouryng of god whiche was exercysed and vsed in the olde testament by the Leuites and syngynge men with songes and belles as it is wrytten in the fyrste boke of Paralipomenon the .xv. chapitre Syth than it is so the nowe in the newe testamente there is no place appoynted vnto vs of god but we our selfes are the temple of god as Paule wytnesseth in the .iii. chapytre of the fyrst epystle to the Corinthians / and Chryste hym selfe also in the. iiii chapytre of Iohn̄ dothe take awaye all prescripte and determynate places whan he sayth The tyme shall come whan you shal worshyppe the father neyther here in Hierusalem but in spiryte trouthe THese wordes therfore must be vnderstāde now in these dayes of a spirytuall sanctuary so that Laudate dominū in sancto suo is asmoche to saye as amonge vs and in the congregacyon and companye of Chrysten mē / wherfore it can not be wrested nor applyed to the canonysacyon of sayntes or to the callyng vpon them by prayour And yf bycause of this place it myghte be proued and cōcluded the sayntes are to be canonised or prayed vnto than by the same reason belles symballes taberettes harpes shulde be made sayntes prayed vnto For it foloweth in the same psalme Prayse the lorde in shrylle soūdynge symballes prayse hym in harpes and organes GO to than nowe yf thou dost prayse god in these musycall instrumentes praye also vnto them make them

A boke made by a certayne great clerke agaynst the newe Idole and olde Deuyll / whiche of late tyme in Misnia shulde haue ben canonysed for a saynt ❧ ❧ ❧ ☞ ☜ FIrste of all I do make protestacyon that in this boke myne intent is not that Benno the bysshope which is deed many yeres ago / shulde eyther be iudged or els condempned For he hath his iudge lyke as al other haue / whiche haue departed frō this lyfe of whome it is not laufull for any man to pronoūce or gyue sentence oneles it be so that god hathe perauēture reueled it vnto hym Fyrst by wordes afterwardes by sygnes / for we do onely here touche rebuke that lyuynge Satan Satan which nowe in this tyme in which that gospell is agayne rysen vp by the grace of god shineth all abrode knoweth none other way howe to auenge hym selfe / than vnto the scornynge of god and to the rebuke and sclaunder of his worde to take vnto hymselfe suche maner disguysed apparayle / that vnder the name of Benno whiche forsothe wolde more gladlye haue rested in his graue he myght suffre hym selfe with great ordynaunce of golde and syluer and with solempne and royall pompe to be consecrated and worshypped for a saynt But the Ire and wrathe of god worketh this and bryngeth it to passe that those obstynate and blynde tyrauntes and pursuers suche as is the Pope with his adherētes which do not receyue The Pope no nor yet can suffre the gospell vnto theyr owne saluacyon are compelled to beleue leasynges great errours and the disceytes of the deuyll 2 Thessa secundo As Paule saythe vnto theyr greater condempnacyon And I do this so moch the more gladly and with more redy mynde for that I do knowe of a suretie that it is nothyng pleasaunt nor acceptable to Benno yf it so be that he is a saynt in very dede to be canonised Lyke wyse as it was neuer pleasaunt to any of all the sayntes that they haue ben cōsecrated of the Pope / Howe be it this same thynge I meane to be canonysed hathe chaunsed to very fewe of them For these mere Papistical saintꝭ haue ben for that most part of them no true chrystyans specyally for this cause that as we do se commenly to come to passe of this canonisacyon and consecracyon of sayntes men do tourne them selfes from the grace of god and from the fayth trust in Chryst do leane vnto the merytes suffrages of sayntes And so moche goodes and ryches is bestowed vpon theyr temples that the worke of charyte towardes our neyghbour is well nere extincte / that the sayntes are accompted taken in the stede of god / and stones stockes in the stede of our neyghbour / of the sayd goodꝭ Images onely slowe belyes ydell swyne are fat fedde in the tēples churches and monasteryes Nowe to the laufull very sayntes there can be nothynge more pleasaunt and acceptable than that pure vncorrupte faythe and lyuely stronge charyte do indure contynue amōge men And for this cause god wold that Moyses shuld be in suche wyse buryed The Butyaff of Moyses that no man shuld knowe his graue lest els he myght happely in that place be worshyhped called vpon and prayed vnto Yea moreouer he dyd not suffre so moche as any honoure or worshyp to be gyuen vnto god in any certayne place appoynted or by any spirytuall name oneles he had cōmaunded it before his owne selfe For whiche cause also Ezechias dyd breake the brasen serpent into peces Esechias albeit that god had cōmaunded it to be made because he dyd perceyue that the Iewes wolde there set vp honour vnto god though the false ꝓphetes also dyd often tymes crye that it was done to the honour glorye of very god euen lykewyse as the Pope with his adherentes dothe nowe of this Benno Howe moche lesse thā is it to be suffered now these dayes that in the newe testamēt in the clere lyghte of the gospell any maner honourynge or worshyppynge of god shuld be sette vp of any mans owne wyttes deuocyon besyde that onely honoure and worshyppe whiche he hathe cōmaūded in faythe charytie The true honourrynge of god with the oblacyon offeryng vp of euery mans owne selfe so as Paule dothe teche in the .xii. Chapitre to the Romanes Fyrst to begyn at the hyghest the matter went gaylye forwarde that that Satan was in Misnia aduaūsyd set vp by Adryan Adryan the .vi. whyles he lyued his owne peculyer and specyall mynister and seruaunt / For albeit that he was accōpted taken to be of a certayne good cōmendable lyfe as the fame goeth of hym Yet as all suche maner Hypocrytes are wonte to be he was the sorest enemy of all men vnto god and his worde / because I wyll not speke here that at Bruxelles he suffered that double murther to be done and two martyrs to be made vnto Chryst and to be taken for very sayntꝭ all thoughe he was ygnoraunte therof Iohan Henry vetye marters and it was sore agaynst his wyll For murther was commytted and done as yf they had ben than heretykes which in very dede they were not For true christen men those in especyall whiche haue any admynistracyon in spirytual thynges do neyther torment nor slee any mā but they do onely as Christ Paule teacheth eschewe the companye of wycked men beware of thē And thoughe neyther I oughte nor yet can iudge what maner ende he had at his deth yet this doubtles I may iudge that excepte he dyd amende before that he dyd departe from this lyfe dyd reuoke or repēt hym of such murther And dyd with his hert vnfaynedly fauour our gospell it is vndoubted the he is not free from dampnacyon This mater no doubte of it is handeled in all poyntes after the papistycall maner Iohn̄ hus and Hierome of prage For lykewyse as in the coūsell of Constance Iohn̄ Hus Hierome of Prage those verye sayntes martyrs of god were condempned and brente Thomas de aquino the fountayne of all heresy And on the other syde Thomas de Aquino the origynall fountayne and sprynge of all Heresye the pestylence and as his bokes do wytnesse the ouerthrower destroyer of the gospell was canonysed made a saynt Euen so nowe yf god be pleasyd our mayster Adrian doth at Bruxelles / he hath Adryan the .vi. brente those very sayntes Iohn̄ and Henry nowe on the other syde maketh I wotte not what of Benno a saynt nay rather the very deuyl For this is the peculyare propre worke of the popes / they must nedes laboure aboute these thyngꝭ that is to wytte to rydde the very sayntes out of the worlde and to auaūce lyfte vp on hyghe counterfayte sayntes / to condempne the worde of god to establysshe theyr owne doctryne /