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A04598	The true historie of the Christen departynge of the reuere[n]de ma[n] D. Martyne Luther, collected by Iustus Ionas, Michael Celius, and Ioannes Aurifaber whych were present therat, & translated into Englysh by Iohan Bale	Jonas, Justus, 1493-1555.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Aurifaber, Johann, 1519-1575. aut; Caelius, Michael, 1492-1559. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 14717; ESTC S120459	23,568	68

The true hystorie of the Christen departynge of the reuerēde mā D. Martyne Luther collected by Iustus Ionas Michael Celius and Ioannes Aurifaber whych were present therat translated into Englysh by Iohan Bale Arma Ducis Saxoniae I hearde a voyce from heauen sayth S. Iohan whych sayd thus vnto me Blessed are the dead whych depart in the lorde For they from hens forth shall rest from their labours Apoca. xiiij The true hystorye of the Christen departynge of the reuerēde man D. Martyne Luther collected by Iustus Ionas Michael Celius and Ioannes Aurifaber whych were present therat and translated into Englysh by Iohan Bale IN the yeare of our lorde a M.D.XLVI at the instaunt request of the worthye and noble earles of Mansfelde the Reuerende man of God Doctor Martyne Luther departed from Wittemberge the 23. of Ianuarye and rested the first nyght at Bitterfelde For thys onlye cause ded they call hym thydre at that tyme to ende by hys godlye dyscressyon serten greuouse scysmes and controuersyes whych had longe not without parell contynued betwixt them Rather coueted they hym than anye other persone to fynysh those varyaunces for that they knewe hym a man of most groūded cōscyence lernynge iudgemēt also natyue borne within their domynyon in a cytie called Ißlebē And though the treatye of soch polytyck causes perteyned not to hys vocacyō ▪ yet was he not vndylygēt in reducynge that lōge cōceyned malyce and daungerouse hate in to a most agreable Christen concorde And the rather that it was in hys owne natyue contraye On the xxiiij daye of Ianuarye aboute eleuen of the clocke he came to Hallis and remayned there all that daye forth and iij. dayes after in the howse of Doctor Iustus Ionas In the meane tyme he made there a solempne sermon in the temple of the Conuersyon of S. Paule out of the Apostles Actes On the frydaye after whych was the xxviii daye of Ianuarye he departed frō Hallis with Doctor Ionas and hys iij. sonnes Iohan Martyne and Paule so passed ouer the daungerouse flode in a smal whyrye takynge hys iournaye from thens towardes Ißleben hys owne natyue cytie As he had ones entered the countye of Mansfelde he was honourablye receyued of an C. and xiij horse men Anon after in the charett he became so sore sycke that all they whych were present moch doubted of hys lyfe Wherupon they toke the next harboure releued hym with soch prouysyon as there was so that he was verye cherefull that nyght and complayned nomore of sickenesse From the xxix daye of Ianuarye tyll the xvij daye of Februarye he was contynuallye occupyed aboute the matters of concorde and agrement of the forseyd noble prynces bryngynge it vnto a most godlye conclusyon And besydes hys great laboure in so necessarye a cause he preached in the meane tyme iiij worthye sermons and ij tymes communycated with the Christē churche there in the holye supper of the lorde And in the latter communyon whych was vpon the sondaye he ordayned ij mynysters of the worde of God after the Apostles maner From the afore sayd .xxix. daye of Ianuarye to the xvij of Februarye manye a wonderfull sentence came out of hys mouthe and manye confortable wordes ded he vtter Manye harde places of the scriptures he opened in the presence of those noble prynces both at their tables and other where els wherof a boke is now compyled and imprented And amonge all other he oft tymes complayned of hys age and sayd If it pleased God that he came agayne to Wittemberge he wolde desyre no longar to lyue but depart in the lorde And alwayes at euen he vsed by the space of these xxi dayes to go from the prynces great haule īto hys owne chābre where as standynge ryght vp agaynst the wyndowe he occupyed a serten tyme in most feruent prayer vnto God the eternall father Wherof we Iustus Ionas Michael Celius Ioannes Aurifaber Ambrose hys owne seruaunt moch marueled vnderstādynge oft tymes serten of hys wordes And thys done he turned hym alwayes from the wyndowe towardes vs with a merye countenaūce as one delyuered of a verye heauye burden Thē wolde he a lyttle commen with vs and so go to hys bedde On the wedynsdaye whych was the xvij daye of Februarye both the noble prynces we desyred hym to kepe hys chambre and no longar to accombre hym selfe in their matters whych were afore that fullye and clerelye pacyfyed Notwithstandynge he came forth that mornynge agayne at euen lyke as he had done euerye daye afore In the verye same euenynge after supper about a vij or viij houres afore hys departynge from thys worlde he made vs a most grounded sermon of deathe necessarye and of the lyfe to come hauynge therin thys sentence amonge other O most blessyd lorde xx years are a verye small tyme. Yet if there were no increace therin accordynge to thy godlye creacyon and ordynaunce the worlde wolde in a maner be clerelye vacaunt or without people The greatter part of hys churche doth God gather vnto hym from infauntes And verelye I beleue thys to be true that whan a yonge childe of one yeare of age dyeth there departeth out of the worlde with hym ▪ a M. or ij of the same age But whan I now depart the worlde whych am thre score yeares olde there wyll scant iij. score depart hens with me of the same age so fewe are there whych lyue to that age And nothynge els wynne we by our longe contynuaunce here but daylye affliccyons and sorowes in beholdynge the wyckednesse falsehede and calamytees of thys worlde What a cruell sprete our common aduersarye is we nede to go no farther for recorde than ourselues And non other thynge els is mankynde than a shepe folde appoynted to the slaughter Afterwarde in the nyght as we were in dyuerse communycacyons he chaunced vpon thys questyon Whether in the worlde to come or in the perpetuall congregacyō one of vs shuld knowe an other or naye And as we instauntlye desyred hym therin to saye hys mynde he made vs thys answere How ded Adam sayd he how ded Adam As he arose from the slepe that God cast hym in Gene. 2. and behelde Eua standynge by hym whome he neuer sawe afore he sayd not what art thu or from whens dost thu come But he sayd Thys is now a bone taken of my bones and a verye flesde of my fleshe Thus perceyued he her not to be made of a dead stocke or a stone but of hys owne fleshe And full was he of the holye Ghost in that houre hauynge the perfyght through knowledge of God To thys full knowledge shall we come after thys lyfe beyng renouated in Christ and shall knowe one another by countenaunce more perfyghtlye than euer Adā knewe Eua hys wyfe After these communycacyons he arose and went vnto hys owne chambre ▪ hys ij sonnes Martyne and Paule with

name and not on ydolles and brynge vp their chyldrē and famelyes accordynge to thy most holye wyll and commaundementes Therfor aryse most blessyd lorde and lete it be wele knowne that thu art more myghtye than all our bloudthurstye aduersaryes And the moch more rather for that there is at thys daye in no kyngedome lorde vndre the sunne anye other manyfest churche or Christen congregacyon wherin thy holye worde is apertlye frelye and purelye taught and the sacramentes accordynge to thy true instytucyon mynystred neyther yet eternall father thy holye name called vpon ryghtlye by thy dere sonne Iesus Christ our lorde in the holye Ghost than onlye our churches and those that be of our true beleue The Pope and the Emprour wyll in no wyse abyde thys churche but sete in all their polycyes the vtter destruccyon therof They now laboure with tothe and nayle for 〈◊〉 syncere and pure doctryne to set vp mennys lyes and in place of thy true worshyppynges to auaunce foule ydolatrye We knowe it blessed lorde to be our bounde dewtye both to stoppe and withstande their wycked and frantyke enterpryse as wele for our owne subiectes as for their posterytees And therfor good lorde what we haue and what we maye we put now whollye in hasarde that the hygh treasure of grace thy precyouse worde and thy holye name maye gracyouslye remayne styll amonge vs and so be had in contynuaunce and left for imytacyon vnto our posterytees Thu God almyghtye whych art the most ryghteouse iudge of thy peoples iudge me in thys present cause accordynge to thy ryghtwysnesse and nō otherwyse thā my innocencye therin requyreth For neyther the pope nor yet the Emproure can shewe hytherto anye honest pretence of thys their most detestable enterpryse I besyche the therfor as thu art my true god lete the malyee of myne enemyes come to nought Hytherto haue they agaynst thy holye worde done thys vyolence Defende thy true seruauntes whych haue both loued and embraced thy Gospell of saluacyon Thu God without fayle art the selfe ryghteouse iudge that serchest the inwarde hartes and reynes Thu lorde so clerelye beholdest the most hydden secretes of the harte that neyther they cā deceyue the nor yet mocke the with all their persuasyble gloses as they do soch men as knowe not their wyckedcraftes God is my strōge shyelde of defēse preseruynge thē whych are true hatred But to soch dyssemblers and scorners as with craftye colours de clocke their inwarde myschefe and m 〈…〉 e he is a mo● ernest enemye the lorde is a ryghteouse iudge 〈◊〉 soche a lyberall God as geueth hymselfe daylye to thē that heare hys worde and saueth them all daungers But where as hys worde is co 〈…〉 and blasphemed as with the cruell Pope and Emproure whych haue longe tyme contynued in their wycked purpose Loo beholde my lorde God becometh a stronge warryour yea hys armoure and weapons are layed fourth he hath sharpened hys swerde he hath bent hys bowe and made it redye therupon also he hath done hys arrowes of destruccyon so that perpetuall deathe wyll vpon them fasten that shall with those dartes be stryken The blasphemouse Pope and Emproure haue now conceyued myschefe they trauayle all great with iniquyte but a thynge of nought are they lyfe to brynge fourth They both haue labouryouslye dygged a pytt and with wycked haman shall in conclusyon droppe into the snare they haue made Their vnhappye workes wyll he auylye lyght vpon their owne pates and vpon their backes wyll their wyckednesse fall to their no small grefe In the meane season wyll I rendre thankes vnto my lorde God for hys ryghteousnes sake and magnyfye the name of the kynge that is hyghest Amen Iournaye Ißleben Hallis 3. sonnes Sore syck Preached Prayer Prynces A sermon Departynge A questyō Adam Prayer Medycyne Earle Albert Watchynge vnto god The pope Ionas vnto god Resort To Christ Thankes The pope Ioan. 3. Psal. 67. vnto god doctryne Cōstaun●● In peace Simeon Ioann 8. Hys bodye Prynces Ionas The duke Hallys Prynces Electour Hys wyfe sonnes doctours Straungers Pomeranus Buryed 1. Cor. 15 witnesses 3. thynges Churche Luther Doctryne Offyce Christ. Teachers Fathers Abrahā prophetes Iohan Baptyst doctours Rēnaunt Luther Gouerners Troubles Obstynates Faythe Inuocacyon Christ. Cyuyle ordre The Byble Erasmus a buylder Of God Thankes allegorye Scriptures Scriptures Erasmꝰ A gyaunt Weakelynges Vehemēcye Conscyence Polycyes Stronge Prayer Teares myghtye wysdome Chronycles eloquēce A father Organe of God Teachers Prayer Warnynges Threttes Christēly Christ. Lyfe to come 1. Thes. 4 pastoure Tryūphe The Gospell Hypocrytes S. Paule The worlde Aduersaryes Princes The pope an angell 2. partes of hys doctrine An other Ioan. 16. Iohan Huss a swanne Luther Reioyce Lazarus our sprete the slepe Deathe Luther Deathe Prayer An example No feare Innocēt Departure Ambrose Luther ii causes Last wordes No deathe Prayer Ambrose good mā S. Paule ●hearles S. Martyn Luther Helias Faythe preachers Papystes

holye sprete thys myghtye Apostle S. Martyne Luther agaynst the Antichristyane doctryne of that deuylysh pope and hys smokye swarme Lyke as the seyd Iohan Huss prophecyed in the verye houre of hys deathe For Huss in the Bohemysh tunge is as moch to saye as a gander Ye rost now the gander sayd he but after my deathe God wyll rayse soche a swāne as ye shall neyther be hable to rost nor yet to brenne And as they had sore accōbred hym with more ydell clamours and cryes than he was wele hable to answere he concluded thus with them An hondred yeares hens sayd he shall God and I answere yow Thys faythfull promes of hys true prophete haue the lorde now most iustlye perfourmed by our most dere father S. Luther whych in the yeare next folowynge that hondred beganne in hys worde to inuade the kyngedome of Antichrist Most hygh thankes ought we to geue vnto God that he in so harde battayles so longe preseruered hym to hys true churches behoue and that Christ by the space of xxx yeares haue so oft in hym tryumphed ouer hys aduersaryes Vnto hym be honoure and glorye perpetuall without ende Amen Great cause haue we on the other syde to reioyce ī that our father here hath so frutefullye perfourmed hys course in the Apostles doctryne and prophetes offyce And therin is so gracyouslye hens departed vnto our lorde Iesus Christ. There hath he now the felyshypp of the patryarkes prophetes Apostles Martyrs other faythfull fathers Namelye of thē whome here he so faythfully instructed in the Gospell of saluacyō with Lazarus is he there in Abrahams bosome or in the perpetuall Ioye of all heauenlye cytiezens The experyment therof haue we in Saynt Paule whych sayd Phil. 1. A desyre I haue to dye and to be with Christ. The same haue we also in Steuen whych sayd Acto 7. Lorde Iesu receyue my sprete More ouer Christ gaue vs a taft therof whan he sayd to the thefe Thys daye shalt thu be with me in paradyse Luce 23. And no doubt of yt as the sprete of Christ was in the handes of hys father tyll the daye of hys complete resurreccyon after he had sayd father into thy handes I cōmende my sprete So shall our spretes be in the handes of Christ tyll our complete resurreccyon For so sounde the wordes whych Abraham spake to the ryche glotton concernynge Lazarus He is in confort where as thu art in afflyccyon Luce 16. The faythfull are in quyett and confortable solace the wycked hath vnquietnes with paynefull anguysh shall haue to the lattre daye full swete therfor is that slepe whych the scripture affermeth the electes to rest in Yea and lyke as in a naturall slepe the hole man resteth plesauntlye is refreshed and becometh more stronge and helthefull So do the syckeman specyallye if he be terryfyed with the feare of deathe by greuouse and horryble dreames vnquyetouslye rest The slepe of soch a wone is oft tymes more greuouse and horryble than washys watchynge afore A great dyfference therfor is there betwixt the slepes of the faythfull and vnfaythfull Of these shall it become vs non otherwyse to dyffyne than the scripture leadeth vs. Now haue our dere father here obtayned that he longe had in desyre Wherfor if he were now agayne amonge vs he wolde ernestlye rebuke our present mournynges with these wordes of Christ Ioan 14. If ye loue me ye wolde trulye reioyce in my most profytable passage vnto God my eternall father or at the least be contented with my perpetuall felycyte and quyett Christ hath for vs ouercomen the deathe whye shulde we than anye more feare the stynge therof Non other is the deathe of our bodyes now than an entraunce of a lyfe contynuall through Iesus Christ our lorde whych was for vs a most precyouse sacryfyce I yet remembre it wele that I oft tymes hearde thys blessed man Doctour Luther saye as he behelde anye faythfull persone peceablye depart hens in Christes beleue The eternall God of heauen graunt me at hys tyme appoynted so plesauntlye to passe hens into the bosome of Christ my redemer and that my bodye be not longe vexed with the terrours of deathe Notwithstandynge yet Gods wyll be fulfylled in that matter In thys vnyuersyte now of late yeares Mastre Ambrose Bernarde a man sober wyse vertuouse and soch a won as loued Christ inteyrlye chaunced as ye knowe certayne dayes afore he dyed to be sicke and to kepe hys bedde Yet felte he no sore grefe of hys syckenesse but semed by and by therin transfourmed as it had bene into an other lyfe For he spake vnto vs most solacyouslye and plesauntlye that he wolde reioyce with vs as one neyther felynge of deathe nor yet dysease He coulde not feare the deathe for he felte nothynge therof And euer as mencyon was made of Christ from the verye hart he reioyced and sayd that grace helthe and mercye from God the euerlastynge father hath onlye chaunced to vs by hys most meke sufferynges An vnspekable loue had he vnto Christ and alwayes called vpon God the father in onlye sprete and veryte As mencyon was made of hys dere wyfe and chyldren or of hys possessyons rentes and dettes owynge hym he was so ignoraunt in all soch causes as they neuer had bene knowne to hym Vs at all tymes he knewe as we commened of Christ and named vs by our names He talked ioyfullye yea he both dallyed and laughed but all was in spirytuall thynges That a man not throughlye knowynge the matter wolde haue thought hym neuer to haue bene worldlye wyse in hys lyfe neyther yet to haue nede of hys bedde at that houre In thys innocencyeded the lorde Iesus Christ take hym hēs most plesauntlye and swetelye without other paynes to all our syght So that hauynge knowledge of the Christen faythe with the inteyre lone of God and hope of the lattre resurreccyon he neyther felte doloure nor deathe neyther tasted it nor yet se it As Christ sayth Ioan. 8. He that obserueth my worde shall neuer beholde deathe but pleasauntlye passe hens from deathe vnto lyfe And though all godlye beleuers do not so peaceablye depart as ded thys Ambrose but haue great paynes and suffre great anguyshes as ded on the crosse the dere sonne of God yet whan the extreme houre cometh they trulye se lyfe and no deathe As our swete father here ded whych so oft tymes and so inteyrlye commended hys sprete into the handes of God Whych gracyouslye hath now delyuered hym from thys lyfe myserable to a lyfe most happye and sure To hym therfor be honoure and glorye worlde without ende Amen Thys helthsome and myrye hystorye of our ambrose brought I in here for causes First therby sumwhat to mytygate your present dolours for the absens of our father here whych ye haue not without cause Secundlye for that I se the seyd

hystorye so conforme to the matter we haue now in hande Thys mastre Ambrose was verye nygh of kynne to S. Martyne Luther whych caused hym oft tymes to frequent hys cumpanye both in hys syckenesse and afore And these were the last wordes that euer he spake vnto hym Mastre Doctour I thanke yow of your gentyll vysytacyon I hope as gentyllye to vysyte yow agayne where we shall togyther commen of most ioyfull causes And now in dede they maye commen those matters in an other lyfe and holde soch heauenlye felyshypp as they neuer coulde do here The same verye tyme that Doctour Martyne went so from hym I am wele remembred that he sayd thus vnto me Thysman is surelye gone though he seme styll here For he knoweth no maner of thynge perteynynge to the fleshe nor yet to deathe Whan we put hym in mynde of hys matters he knoweth not the worlde nor yet thys lyfe He is merye he ioyfullye laugheth and propouneth vnto vs in hys innocent state most wonderfull mysteryes But in the ende he derydeth vs. As who shuld saye fare ye wele now I haue nomore to do with thys worlde The lorde of hys infynyte mercye sayth he at the last graunt me soch a gracyouse ende that in the houre of deathe I nothynge remembre thys worlde In lyke maner at an other season after the seyd Ambrose was buryed in the yeare of our lorde a M.D.XLII in the monthe of Ianuarye as he one daye passed by he poynted with hys hande to hys graue and sayd vnto me Thys mā neyther felte hymselfe sycke neyther yet reckened of deathe yet was he neuer without Christes knowledge Here lyeth he inclosed whych yet knoweth of no deathe O lorde Iesus Christ I besyche the wore saue to take me so from thys myserable lyfe Yea manye tymes sayd thys blessyd father here both to me and to other Praye vnto our most mercyfull father that he shortlye take me vnto hym for here can I nomore do neyther yet am I anye longar profytable vnto yow Helpe me hens with your prayers prolonge not my lyfe on the earth Herbye maye ye wele perceyue that he had no great pleasure here but that hys full desyre was as was Saynt Paules to be dysolued and with Christ. He sange hys consummatum longe afore he departed commyttynge hys sowle to the handes of God Manye other prognostycacyons we had or sygnes asore hande of hys goynge awaye from vs. For all the yeare afore he sayd oft tymes vnto vs that he coueted to iournaye an other waye And as he desyered so came it to passe For as the noble earles of Mansfelde had sent for hym into hys owne natyue cytye of Ißleben by hys ghostlye counsell to quyet their matters of controuersye as he ded most gracyouslye he deceased there clerelye from thys lyfe The maner of thys Christen departynge ye haue in writynge by dyuerse men lerned of most grounded testymonye whych were there present with the prayer whych he made afore he gaue vp hys lyfe Whych here to repete were superfluouse Here am I cōpelled to call to remembraunce the holye Byshopp S. Martyne In whose hystorye Seuerus Sulpicius mencyoneth that the Arryanes all other heretykes trembled as they hearde hym but named and that there was amonge the Chrysten beleuers sore lamentacyon and mournynge at hys buryall More ouer that after hys deathe was great dysputacyon betwyn certen cyties whych of them shulde retayne hys bodye And all thys hath also as ye knowe full wele chaunce ●o our Martyne here the elect Apostle and Prophete of God to withstande the great Antichrist in thys worthye lande of the Germanes Hym hath Christ now in hys dere bosome reseruynge hym to honoure for that he so inteyrlye loued hym and hys true churche Vnto vs hys posteryte the lorde graunt hys double sprete specyallye in those churches whych he here so frutefullye planted lyke as the Prophete Eliseus desyred of Helias as he was from hens translated If we thynke that God for our synnes and vnthankefulnesse hath depryued vs of hym lete vs studyouslye amende our lyues and desyre of the same God our mercyfull father that we maye frō hēs forth perseuer in the pure doctryne and syncere Christen faythe and that Christ therin maye defende vs from sectes tyrauntes and the gates of helle Most gracyouse lorde Iesus Christ defende now thy carefull congregacyon that they perpetuallye maye prayse the a ryght Helpe vs our mercyfull God redemer and delyuer vs for the glorye of thy mo●● holye name Be fauourable to our inyquytees for thy gracyouse promes sake Conserue in our churche the syncere and faythfull mynysters Graunt them by thy holye sprete thy myghtye strēgth and power as the 67. Psalme specyfyeth God with stronge wordes wyll assyst hys preachers Truth is it that both the vnshamefast and horryble blasphemyes of the obstynate papystes and monkes and also our daylye vnthankefulnesses and vyces haue deserued sore plages and penaltees Yet lete vs not cease to call vpō god our most mercyfull father with amendemēt that he defende vs from all false worshyppynges for hys onlye sonnes sake our lorde Iesus Christ. And that thys prophetycall verse or Epitaphe of our fathers owne makynge maye be clerelye fulfylled Pestis eram uiuens moriēs ero mors tua papa Alyne I was thy pestylence Thu Antichrist thu pope of Rome And now I dead wyll be from hence Thy deathe thy most dredefull dome God haue the prayse for euer Amen The Christen prayer of the most noble prynce electour Iohan Frederick duke of Saxon in hys godlye warres agaynst Antichrist hys vpholders Translated by Iohan Bale O Lorde eternall and my God in the put I all my trust Preserue me frō my pursuers and kepe me out of their cruell hādes Lete them not rauyne me vp as the lyon the shepe neyther yet teare me in peces whyle there is non to assyst me O lorde and my God if I haue done soch thynge as the pope and Emprour do now laye to my charge as that I shuld support yll doctryne and renoūce true obedyence If I haue done euyll to anye faythfull seruaunt of thyne or begunne thys warre vncompelled Suffer myne enemyes to vexe me and take me yea lete them treade my lyfe into the earthe and throwe my honoure my power possessyons and peoples with all that thu hast geuen me into the dust But thu my ryghteouse lorde God knowest the hartes of vs both Therfor stande vp lorde strongelye in thy wrathe and shewe thy selfe as a myghtye God agaynst the furyouse indygnacyons of myne enemyes Establysh me a freshe in the offyce wherwith thu hast charged me that in myne owne landes and amonge myne owne folke I maye dwell in peace That they maye into a faythfull congregacyon be gathered vnto the and not to the pope Lete them heare thy blessyd worde lorde and not hys call vpon thy