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A06508	A frutefull and godly exposition and declaracion of the kyngdom of Christ and of the christen lybertye, made vpo[n] the wordes of the prophete Jeremye in the xxij. chapter, with an exposycyon of the viij. Psalme, intreatyng of the same matter, by the famous clerke Doctor Martyn Luther, whereunto is annexed A godly sermon, of Doctor Urbanus Regius, vpon the ix. Chapyter of Mathewe of the woman that had an issew of blood & of the rulers daughter, newly translated oute of hyghe Almayne.; Epistel aus dem Propheten Jeremia. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541. Sermon upon the ix. chapter of Mathewe.; Lynne, Walter.	1548 (1548)	STC 16982; ESTC S103978	55,289	166

taken with the palsey lyeng sycke in a bedde he did forgeue to hym hys syunes and restored hys healthe to him Mat. xv In the .xv. chapter of Mathew Christe cryeth woman thy faythe is greate Matth. xxi be it to the as thou willeste In the .xxi. chapter of Mathew ye shalres ceyue all thinges whatsoeuer ye beleuing shal aske in your prayer In the ix chapter of Marke Mar. ix Luce. vij to men beleuing all thinges are possible In the .vij. chapter of Luke the Lord sayth to Magdalent thy fayth hath mayd the safe go thou away in peace Luk. viij In the .viij. chap. of Luce Christ sayth to the chief man of the synagog feare thou not beleue thou onely and thy doughter shal be safe In the xvij chap. of Luke Lu. xvij Christe sayth to the mā full of lepry which he made cleane ryse you vp go thou awaye thy fayth hath saued the. So he sayde also to the blynde man in Hiericho Lu. xviij In the xviij chap. of Luke Faith is called the gyfte of God And through the holy Gospel of Iohn God promiseth euerlastinge lyfe to them that beleue in Christe In the xv chapter of the Actes Act. xv Peter tea cheth that fayth purifieth our hartes And in the xvi of the Act. Act. xvi whā the kepar of the prison sayth to Paul Sila Maisters what thing must I do that I may be saued They answered to him beleue in the Lord Iesu and thou shalt be safe and thy house And in the xi Hebr. xi Chapiter to the Hebrues Saint Paul reckeneth furth a greate rehersall of the deuoute and olde Christianes And he writteth that thei were welbeloued to God and pleased hym And that they shewed myracles by faythe and that it maye not be that any man please god withoute fayth How often sayth Paule that fayth without workes iustifyeth whiche thynge the auncient Doctours of the church of ryght opinyon and fayth setfurthe by these wordes onely fayth iustifyeth But for asmuche as our aduersaries accuse vs and bable that faythe is praysed to moche and exalted aboue measure of vs thereby they shewe thē selfes not yet to vnderstande what is fayth and what the scriptures of the Prophetes and Euangelistes yea the fathers and auncient Byshoppes teache of Christian fayth Wherfore let no man suffre hymself to be leadde awaye from the trueth by the rebukes of oure aduersaryes by whiche they ouerthrowe vs. That not any man may be troubled lightly and called away from the true sentence we shall shewe the causes wherfore scripture prayseth and exalteth so greatly faith in Christ Faythe in vs is vnperfite euereaceth from day to day for that cause it is not so perfite a work by it selfe that so great thynges may be attributed and gyuen for the perfection of it selfe But the couse of thys laude and prayse is because fayth gyueth true glory to oure Lorde God and because it beleueth that he is mercyfull iuste true whiche wil maye performe surelye hys promyse in Christ Thys is the ryghte true worshipping of God Vvhosoeuer beleueth so the word of God he calleth vpon God in all hys necessite without doubte trusteth loked for help of him in patience Therfor faith is thesame thyng which cleaueth fasteneth it self to true perfectiō that is to say to Christe apprehendeth the mercy of god promysed in Christ whiche promyse may not be apprehēded taken otherwyse by no other meane or instrumet thā by faith which is a trust vnto the promysed grace help of god in Christ in al miseries necessities If it might be that I had al the works of al men I had not this faith I myght not yet apprehēd the promyse in christ by al these workes This is the nature of the promise that it desyreth to be apprehended by fayth God promiseth to vs al help grace for Christes sake wherforyf I shuld make leane amost kyl my selt the space of an hole yeare by most strayte greuous fastynges eatyng nothing but crustes of breade drinking pure water yf I shuld go on pilgrimage to Rome armed fenced on al partes or vpō my bare fete not clothed with synnyng clothe but with a wollē rough garmēt rubbing prickyng my skynne yet I myght neuer apprehend the promyse of God in Christ by they works how painful soeuer thei be But whā I heare that God promyseth offereth to me hys mercy help and whan I trust to hys worde as true almygtye I beleue to God whiche can not lye and deceaue than I apprehende and receyne these thynges by that fayth whiche he hath promysed in Christe Therfore the fathers of true opinion and faythe doth declare openly not withoute a cause that onely fayth not any work iustifyeth saueth For because the Gospel sheweth offereth gyueth to vs Iesu Christe the Sonne of God whiche alone and no other hath delyuered vs from synne and death howe may thou receyue otherwyse hym and apprehend in thy harte hym as thyne owne propre than by onely fayth in hym that thou mayest beleue to the Gospell that is to saye that he hath dyed and rysen agayne for the and that he is trnely thy sauyoure and delyuerer Vvherfore note ye diligentlye and forgette not that true fay the in Christe is onely the true meane and instrument by which we laye hande on apprehende and receyue the mercye of God promysed to vs in Christ and al benefytes to our saluation But whan we heare that faith is greatly praysed let vs not thinke that there is suche a perfection in vs whiche hath deserued so great testification in wordes honoures and prayses For it by it selfe deserueth not that but it is the trust in the mercy of God by Christe Therforouer thoughtes must be anone directed vnto Christe vnto whome faythe casteth it selfe to whome it fasteneth and conioyneth it selfe to whome it cleaueth and for whose cause it loketh for and receyueth all good and healthfull thynges of God Faythe is alwayes vnperfyte but Christe to whome faith afflixed cleaue to is not vnperfite but the true infinite and vnmeasurable treasure of all perfection Yf folyshenesse is with vs Christe is oure wysedome Yf we haue synne Christe is our iustice Yf we be not enduwed yet with that holines with which we shulde be for the cause of oure synnynge fleshe Christe is oure sanctification And whan we ware yet prysoners vnder the tyran of hell to euerlastynge death And whan he had no counsayll nor helpe in the hole world forasmuch as no creature myghte delyuer vs and therfor we should hane peryshed than God fende and gaue to vs hys owne propre sonue vnto a redemer that he myght be oure redemption i. Corinth i. i. Cor. i. In conclusyon we haue all fulnesse in Christ and we haue these thynges in hym mooste sufficiently mooste plenteously and most abundauntly

Here becommeth the kynge God and Dauid descrybeth the Kynge our Lorde Christe in thys wyse that he be bothe very man and very God as is here clerely shewed and declared but yet so that he shal suffre and dye and ryse agayne the thyrde daye c. He is God for whatsoeuer is in heauen and erth is subdued vnto him For to haue all thynges vnder hys hande and power pertayneth onely to God and not to any maner of creatures No not to the Angels which are also vnder the dominion of the Kynge oure Lorde Iesus Christ vnto whome be laude and prayse for euer and euer AMEN ❧ An homily or sermon of the famous doctour Vrbanus Rhegius of fayth and resurrection vpon the Gospell of Mathew in the ix Chapter of the woman whiche was grieued with the issew of bloudde and of the doughter of the chief ruler which being dead Christ restored to lyfe preached to the people of Hannouer in Saxon. WElbeloued in the Lord whan before the space of two yeres I was called to you accordinge to the wyl of God our celestiall father that I might aduaunce your loue and honour dewe vnto God and healthe of your soules by teaching admonyshing writinge I ceased not from that tyme to praye vnfaynedly and diligently God oure heauenli father that he would vouchesafe to preserue you in holsome doctrine true fayth and hope of the Gospell and to finyshe his worke begonne in you And now I thanke his fatherly goodnes that he hath preserued you vnder so many temptations stormes ingines of afflictions and persecutions and hath fortified your myndes to cōstaunce and because all your afflictiōs and persecutions haue chaunced to the increase and stabilitie of your sanynge hope through the fatherly goodnes of God and his singulare counsayll that ye may be now more strong and more perfite to a deuoute and blessed lyfe in euery exercise than ye haue bene before But forsothe for as muche as the deuil our most cruell and most sworne enemye doth assaulte and endeuoure to destroye the fayth and doctrine of Christe by diuerse and continuall temptations by merualous wiles by most crafty subtilitie and by many cauteles in euery place and in euery momente it is necessary that ye fortifie your selfes and fyght with all your myghte mayne agaynste an enemye so muche to be feared takyng quycklie true and vnwynable weapons and an vnuincible sworde that is to say the worde of God the worde of sauyng and eternal veritie whiche the deuill more feareth and dreadeth tremblyng than we miserable and feble men may be troubled for feare of fyre of flouddes of tempestes of knyfes and of swordes of gonnes and of what other thingesoeuer may hurte and destroie our corporall lyfe Colos ij And therefore Paule admonysheth his colossians that the word of God in habite abundantly in them For he did knowe and had learned by experience that the spirite of lienge may suffre nothynge lesse nor more grenouslie than the exercise of the pure word of God by which his counsayls and weapons be made blunte and be broken by whiche also we be fortified in faythe and hope of Christ more and more that we may fyght valiauntly in spirituall fyghtyng battayle against the Lordes of thys worlde the gouernoures of darkenesse of this time truly agaynst the euyll crafty spirites vnder heauē and that we may obtayne finally a glorious victory For thys cause I wolde confirme confort your charities with some short compendiouse oration instruction admonition bycause I came agayne to you God so gouernyng and willinge Therfore I wil intreate the gospell of this present day of s Mathew in the ix chapter Mat ix in which s Mathew setteth out to vs two notable myracles done of Christ whiche was written of the Euāgelist to our profyt that our faith may be stirred vp renewed quickened fortifyed and preserued and that oure charitie may be kendled inflammed towarde God and oure neyghboure First Christ restored to health that miserable woman which was grieued sore with a flixe of bloude xij yeres coulde not be healed with any medicynes After he calleth agayne the dead mayd vnto lyfe In these two histories wiracles of the gospel I wil intreate principally also two articles First for asmuche as Christe doeth commende so greatly the faithe of that woman sayng beleue thy fayth hath made the safe because we knowe that he hath testored her by hys owne propre power puttyng away her sickenes a netessary questyon presenteth it selfe to to vs which is worthy to be discussed declared that is wherfore scripture attributeth euery where so much so faith Christ saith here that faith hath made the woman safe In an other place we reade agayn Ioh. iij. that faith bryngeth iustice eternal saluation whan not withstandynge it is manifest that our fayth is yet vnperfite weake that we be constrayned with the disciples to praye Mar ix Lord encrease oure faythe Vve heare also often in these tymes howe vehementlye the blynde world is offended whan faith vnto Christe is publyssed exalted with worthy prayses These newe doctoures say they can no other thing now thā to prayse auaūt only fayth whether only faith might do althynges saue vs in nowyse mo thinges be required thā onely faith For it is necessary that works be also presēt only faith is not sufficiēt is moch we aker of lesse power thā that it maye do that thing Doeth not the deuill also beleue but neuerthelesse he is condemned euerlastyngely These be the saynges of oure aduersaries wher● it may be vnderstād easely how greatly they be offended by the prayses of fayth But we shall heare how greatly they erre After we shall intreate of the resurrection of the body occasion taken of that that Christ calleth agayn here vnto lyfe a wenche now whan her body should haue bene buried this is truely so greate suche a worke that neither reason will nor maye conceyne it but strong fayth must nedes be present It is truely necessary that the holy Ghost gyue and preserue merueloullye that faythe for it is tempted by merueylouse and horrible wayes of the world which iudgeth that fayth to be a mere folyshenesse it is tempted also of oure owne propre reason and of the deuyll hym selfe This Gospell perteyneth to two articles of the crede of oure Christiane faythe that is to saye to that greatest article which maketh vs Christians I beleue in Iesu Christe his onely sonne oure Lorde And I beleue the resurrection of the body The fyrst Article CHriste prayseth the faithe of the woman Mat. xv viij Luc. vij xvij he doeth that in many places in the histori of the Gospel ther of it may be easeli vnderstād that faith shuld be published exalted with prayses his power strēgth should be alwayes diligētli declared ineulcated for Christ doth prayse nothing except it be

prayse worthie Wherfore fyrst I shall teache proue that the prophetes Christe the Apostles old writters of the right opiniō fayth haue preached and published alwayes fayth after the same maner that it may be sene that we be reproued blamed now vnworthely for this doctrine Therfore I will not take it grieuously to put to also the cause of so great prayse and commendation whereby fayth is praysed Moses about to showe how Abraham fyrst obtained so great grace of god that god reputed him to be iust confessed that he was his well beloued seruaūte whiche shoulde be heyre of the worlde and of whome he wolde begod Gent. xv sayeth in this wise Abrahā beleued in god vnderstande thou in the promises of god and it was reputed to him to iustice as Paul consydereth declared diligently and exactly these wordes of god Rom. iij. iiij Mal. iij. Rom. 3 4 also galat. 3. I beseche you is it a light and litle matter that Abraham was reputed iust before God for his faith here surly saith vnto the promises of god is preferreth to al the workes of Abrahā and by this selfe thinge he is declared very euidently to please almighty god chiefly Let all the sortes of monkes all the flockes of pahriseis of our time come out let thē bringe furth so clere and euidēt testimony of the scriptures to the glorifycation and confyrmation of their humane workes In the serōd boke of par ali 20. whā kinge Iosaphat was in great peril the Moabites Aminonites Edomites cominge at hande to him great spede and whan he might notwithstande by the strengthe and power of his people so great a power and violence of his ennemies and all Iuda being abashed for that the propher Iasihel said dreade not feare not this multitude but onely stande boldly and ye shal see the helpe of the lorde vpon you Beleue in the lorde your god ye shal be in saufegarde beleue to his prophetes all thinges shal chaunce prosperouse And whan the people did synge praises to god in faith the lorde turned the wiles and crafte of their enemies against thē selfes for the sonnes of Ammō Moab did arise togither against the Edomites and afterwarde they did slea destroye thier selfes by motual dismēbring but al the people of Iuda their king hauing the riche spoile so great a fortune rei●●ed excedingly This example is surely ●●ted and writen also to vs vnto our profit that we may vnderstāde that faith pleaseth god that the selfe faith leadinge to the promise of GOD ouer cometh and obtaineth victory And that it may all thinges with God those thinges also which seme to men to be impossible The seconde Psalme sayth Psal ij Ier. xvij blessed be all men whiche trust in the Lord. Yf they be blessed which trust to god in his worde suerly it is necessary that fayth is no little thinge before God for as much as it promyseth blessing to them that beleueth in him Also the .xxx. Psalme sayth Psa xxx xxv lxx I trust in the O Lord I shall not be confounded for euer Let no man meruayle that I bring sentences of hope to my purpose instruction for hope faith in Christ be ioyned together and may be separated by thought but this is ther nature that they be alwayes cōioyned vndiuided cōpanions For whatsoeuer I be leue of the promise of God therfore not yet do I see it for that which is sene is not beleued I truste that that shall come be here after I loke for that to be here after somtime Moreouer that word which Dauid vseth here that is Thasah signifieth also to truste We know of Pau. in the iij. iiij chapters to the Rom. that without al controuersy faith by it self is that trust in Christ or that ithath that trust conioyned annexed Esa liij Esaias in the liij chap. teacheth that we are iustified by counynge knowledge of Messias but that connynge is no other thinge than faythe in Christe which we take by christ of the promise of God Therfore Esaias teacheth vs that same thing in that chapter whiche Paule teacheth in the iij. and .iiij. chapters to the Romaynes and in the .iij. Rom. iij iiij Gal. iij. and in the .iij. chapter to the Galatians that fayth in Christe maketh vs iust Ieremi xvij blessed is the mā which trusteth in the Lord Ier. xvij and whose cōfidēce shall be the Lord. Iere. v. Iere. v. Lord thy eyes loke vpon fayth The worde which the interpreter translateth here fayth is in the Hebrue Emunah which also Hierome noted And that worde signifieth truth and truste whan a man doth nothing faynyngly nor of hypocrisye but ernestlye and of good wil and courage that he may cleaue to with full trust of harte and constante taythe to the most true promise of God whiche can not deceaue lye and disapointe We know truely that whan god turneth so his eyes or face any where he she weth not indignation and wrathe but grace and faith as faithfull fathers haue their eyes fyred vpon their children with the most inclined and ardent affection of harte that they may kepe them their harte alwaies fyxed thider whither their eyes be directed Therfor faith is an pleasan̄te sweate sacrifyce in the eyes of god and the trew worshippinge whiche he requireth euery where in scriptures The texte sath in the .6 Daniel vi chapter of Daniel Daniel was brought furth of the lake no hurte was founde in him because he beleued his god Seest thou not that faith obtaineth also victori wher battalle is begonne with most cruell lyons the lorde saith in the second of Oseas Osee ij shal be trouth she to me in faith forsothe this is the greatest truest praise of faith that it is the betruthinge and weddinge ringe with which we be affyaunced to god as his most pleasunt spouse that we may receiue cōmuniō of all his goodnes with him Habacurk in the second chapter Haba ij the iust man shall liue by faith The prophete speaketh not here of this corporall lyfe whithe also the wicked and missheuous mē haue yea and the brute beastes but of the true lyfe by whiche we lyfe before god in grace as wel beloued sounes of god which surely shall entre vnto eternall lyfe as heyres to the father after this transptory and shortely decayenge lyfe in whiche heires Christ lyueth here and leadeth ruleth and gouerned them with hys worde and spyrite c. Now let vs see what christ and his disciples saye of faith in the newe testament Math. viij In the 8 chapter of Mathew christ sayth to Cēturio like as thou beleuest so be it to the. In the .9 Math. ix chapter of Mathew whan christe had sene the faith of the mā sycke in the palsey and theyr faith which brought to christ the man

whiche we haue nede of And we maye not make propre to vs and clayme or laye hande on thys treasure and gyfte of God by anye other meane than by tiue fayth which faith withoute controuersy is effectual also by good workes because it receaueth the holye Ghooste and reneweth and purifyeth the man No deuyll nor wicked and myscheuouse person hath thys faythe albe it they be not verye ignoraunte of the historye of Christe what hys person is and what is hys seruyce notwithstandynge they haue not thys confidence of him that he is theyr redemer and sauyoure and that he wyll delyuer helpe thē For the Deuils know what thing God hath thretened to them that is to saie iudgement and most sure damnation and therfore they tremble and quake But whan we praise so greatly fayth than we speake of true faythe in Christ which is a certayne liuely trust hope of the grace of God whiche he hath promysed to vs in Christe that is to say that he wyl forgeue to vs all oure synnes for Christes sake whiche hath satisfyed for our synnes he wil repute vs iuste and he wil gyue to vs eternal lyfe Neyther the deuill nor hys membres may haue this fayth of the promises of god but the chosē in Christ haue onely it And this is that faith whiche hath restored this womā by which she was made partetaker of the diuine grace help Thys fayth hath made thys woman the doughter of Christ that he dyd vouchesafe to call her hys doughter as Chrysostome sayth And whan scripture prayseth thys fayth thā is the grace and mercy of god for this fayth is the trust vnto the meregrace of god promysed for christes sakerther for thei mē must uede be rude dismaied vnaduised yea frowarde and maliciouse whiche can not suffre that ye most abundaunt grace of God by whiche we ware delyuered from the power of darkenesse be praysed and exalted See that ye be ware of thys kynde of men for they be leadde of thatsame euyll spirite whiche blynded once the Pelagianes Let vs set before oure eyes and folowe also here the example of charitie and mercy which we see here in Christ Iesu oure Lorde and God and that we maye be moued by affection of calamitie and misery of our neyghboures And that we maye helpe and ayde them accordynge to the facultie of our powers and goodes For fayth ought not to be without fruytes ❧ An other Article of the resurrection of the dead Here let vs behold cōsider with intentyue eyes bothe the word work of Christ our Lorde For as moche as they he so merueylouse that we may neuer meruayle ynough at them nor neuer prayse ynough the glory of hys grace He sayth that the wenche slepeth anone he toke her hād and calleth her vnto lyfe The worlde hearyng this standeth by with styf astouyeng eyes reasō mocketh for it semeth incredible and a mere folyshenes that a deformed mortall colde styffe and stynkyng caryon sleapeth In conclusyon how may reasone beleue that death is not death Augustine in the .lxviij. Psalm sayeth We knewe vnderstande then before the comyng of Christe before the worde of God was publyshed in the worlde or before our conuersyon regeneration in mankynde two thinges but one thing was vtterlyvnknowē to vs. That men be borne dyeth that we knowe but that they shal aryse agayn frō the dead and shal lyue euerlastyugly that we knewe not The misteries of God be hyd before reasō The knoweledge of these very greate thynges is not graffed set in the hartes of mē as the lawe of nature therfore reasō all philosophy worldlye wysedome myght knowe nothing of that It was knowē first of al by the gospel of christe which was sent by the holy ghoost from heauen vnto earth Whosoeuer hath not the gospel or beleueth not it he cā knowe nothing of the resurrectiō nor of eternal lyfe which thing the blind ignorant gētiles witnesseth sufficiētly in their writtynges Therfor sayeth Paule i. Cor. ij i. Cor. ij that God hath reueled shewed to vs these thinges by hys spirite that we haue not receaued the spirite of the world but the spirite of God that we may knowe what thynges haue bē geuen to vs of Christe A naturall man vnderstandeth not those thinges which be of the spirite of God it is folyshenesse to hym and he cā not vnderstand it And we heare that here in the Iewes which mocke scorne the Lorde where he saith she is not dead but she slepeth For they could not perceyue and knowe howe death myghte be a slepe Whe● for thei supposed that these wordes of Christe was dreames of a sycke man and mere tryfles and saiynges of a madde man And this is the desteny of the gospell alwayes in the worlde that it is supposed called folyshenesse .i. Cor. i. i Cor. i. Whan Paul in the .xxvi. Ac. xxvi of the Actes teached of the resurrection of the dead the lieuetenaunt Festus iudged that he was madde How hardly beleued Thomas that Christ was reuiued frō dead Iohn xx Iohn xx At Athenes they called the sermones of Paul of the resurrection a babblynge although they auaunted that there was the fountayne of al artes sciences and wysedome Ac. xvij the xvij of the Actes The Sadducees amōg the Iewes iudged that the sermones of Christe of the resurrection was a certayne tryflyng fable thynges impossyble Math. xxij Matth. xxij And Augustyne writeth in the .xxij. boke de ciui dei the .v. Chapter There be thre thinges incredyble which not withstādyng haue bē done It is incredible that christ hath rysē agayne in body hath ascended vnto the heauens with hys body It is incredible that the worlde hath beleued a thyng so incredyble It is incredyble that that men of none estimaton feble very few vnlerned myght perswade so effectually a thyng so incredible to the worlde also to lerned connyng mē in it The carnal sonnes of thys world suffer not to beleue the first point that is to say that Christ hath rysen again The secōd point that is to say that mē notwithstāding hath beleued this thinge although it was incredible they be constrayned to see before ther eyes it forasmuche as the resurrection of the dead is beleued so stedfastly constat̄ly throughout al the worlde of al christianes that therfor they may dispise this lyfe with al his ryches profittes pleasures power shewe also their middel fynger to death as Paule doeth i. Corin. xv i. Co. xv Vvhere is death thy prick The sonnes of this world cā not fynd or know frō whence that other is done that is to say that the worlde beleueth the resurrectiō except they shal beleue also the third point that is to say that it was done by the Apostles men beleuyug theyr preachyng sermōs Our fayth dependeth not of opiniōs of mē nor hath causes set and