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A06520	A ryght notable sermon, made by Doctor Martyn Luther, vppon the twenteth chapter of Iohan, of absolution and the true vse of the keyes full of great co[m]forte. In the which also it is intreated of the mynysters of the Church, and of scolemaisters, what is dewe vnto them. Ande of the hardnes and softenes of the harte of manne.; Predigt am Sonntage nach Ostern. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 16992; ESTC S108931	20,840	50

like mēne / but amōgest the blīde / the lame / the dismembred / the halting / the lepers / the deafe / the dead ād amōgest the myserable shepe that were wretchedly seduced and strayinge abroade With those was he present / those dyd he make of / these did he helpe / curyng them both in body and soule / bringing vnto them the moost precious ande inestimable treasure of the worlde / which no creature hath moche more can it not geue it excepte it receaue it from him / that is to saye / Iustyce ande euerlasting health Thus sayth he here / You shall also do it in all places wher as you shall come And for that same cause I sende you / that you runne and be my Apostles ande messangers through all the worlde And vnto this office you shall ordaine ād appointe others also / the which maye teach ande do the selfe same thynge / vnto the whiche I was sent from my father And you are sente by me / vntyll the worldes ende ande I shal be alwayes present with you / that you maye knowe that you are not they that do that thynge / but I by you By the force and strengt● of this commaundement / we also haue obteyned power ande faculté / to comforte the sadde and carefull conscyences / ande to absoyle them from synne Ande we knowe when we execute this mynysterye or exercyse this acte / that we our selues do it not / but that Chryst hym selfe doth it Wherfore euery vertuous man / in this case ande busynes / must thynke / whē he heareth his curate or the precher so in the pulpitt / that he heareth not man / but God hym selfe speakinge / than maye he be certeyn / eande appointe in his mynde / that he hath receaued full remyssyon of all hys synnes / neyther is there left any sticking or doubte any more For trulye Christe hathe so instituted by his resurrection / that if any man that is laufully called the mynister of the Churche / or who soeuer fynally in extreme necessyté doth absoyle from synnes hys neyghbour that is astonyed and doubtefull in mynde ande desyrous of comforte / the same is of so moche effect and value / as though GOD him selfe had done it / if truly it be done by his commaundement and in his name Wherfore / when two after this sorte intreate and talke betwyxt them selues / they are gathered to gether in the name of CHRISTE For lyke as it is aboue sayd vnto vs / none of thē both / here desyreth or seketh for the goodes of the other / lyke as the Papistes ād gapers for advaūtage do / which do not onely pol but also pill the Church / which do synge ande distill into the sicke soche or like woordes / O man / the houre is now at hande that doth call the from hēs Remembre howe thow wylt dispose thy goodes and thy faculties / that they maye be bestowed into vertuous or Godly vses The auarice or couetuousnes of the Papistes See that thou forget not thy wretched soule / ād see that thou prouide for the helth of it Gyue vnto vs one parte of thy goodes / ād we shall praye for the / ande we shall do many good woorkes for the / ād the merites of all our good woorkes / shal be comune vnto the / with vs. The sayinge of a faithfull mynyster vnto the sycke This doth not he / which is godly in dede speake vnto the sicke / but vseth these / or soch like wordes O my frēde the opportunité of the place ād time / or the case of thy infirmeté doth not nowe suffer vs to haue many things to do of thy money ande of thy earthely goodes / let other men take cure of those I see thy harte to be troubled or stryken wyth the feare of death / ād that thou arte in conflict with desperatyon / and that thou haste not sufficiēt helpe of thy selfe wherby thou mayest be able to rydde thy selfe oute of that daūger / and confirme thy minde against those fearfull thynges But take a good harte vnto the / Christ hath instituted a kīgdom in earth full of consolation and beatitude / when he sayde / like as my father hath sent me so do I sēd you / with these wordes / he hath consecrated vs all to be priestes / for this purpose / that one shuld declare vnto other the remissiō of sīnes And therfore / I nowe come vnto the in the name of the same oure lorde Iesu Christ / and I bidde the to be of good comforte There is no cause why thou shuldest feare There is nothing why thou sholdest quake and be of a desperate minde / as though ther were no solace / helpe or counsell any where Doest thou not heare that Christ came not for the iust / but for sinners to the purpose to saue them Wherfore take a good harte vnto the / trust assuredly / receue this glad tidinges wyth a glad minde / ād with thy harte rēdre vnto him thākes for this tidinges whiche he bringeth vnto the by me / without all labour / care ande charge of thy selfe And besydes this / also he hath geuen commaundement / that I shuld remytre vnto the thy synnes / wherfore I forgeue all thy synnes vnto the / in the name of the Father / the sonne ande the holyghoost Wherfore / nowe with a glad mīde / saye these wordes O moost mercifull God O heauenly Father I thanke th● / that thou hast forgeuen vnto me my synnes / by thy derely beloued sonne Iesus Christ nor doubte not / but of the lorde hī selfe the hauenly father thou arte absoyled of thy vniuersall synnes Of this thou seest / that these wordes of the office of the keyes doth ī no wise cōfyrme and establish the tirannie of the po●… For christ did not therfore giue these keies He did not therfore īstitute this ministerie / that I shuld ēriche the / or thou me / or that I shuld be lorde ouer the / or that thou shuldest be cōpelled to be subiect vnto me / as the pope doth conuerte it into wordly power / magnyfycence and dominion by the whiche acte he setteth forth ād doth testifie / moost manyfestly / that he hym self is a great Rybaulde / Antechrist hym selfe / moost wicked / full of contuma●…te ād a despiser of GOD / a blasphem●s and a mocker of CHRIST ande the traitour of his Churche For Christe woulde not this / as I haue sayde He hath not by these wordes instituted any wordly Kyngdome and tyranny / but he had an eye to this purpose / this he wolde / and therfore he dyd institute it / that comming vnto the● wrastlyng with desperation / and gronyng vnder the harde burden of synnes whether it be in the great agony of death / or any other tyme I shuld saye vnto the intending to lyfte the vp with comforte or counsell let power / money / honoures dygnityes and

same / they can not esteme as it is worthy / the grace of the gospel / or the benefite of Christ / or with glad harte to embrace the same / or to desire it from the botome of their harte Wherfore thou shalt in vaine teach amonge those moche of the grace that is gotten by Christ / for where the lawe is not taught / ande well beaten into them / there do mē knowe nothing of synne / what thing it is / howe great the crudelitie and abhomination of it is / and which are the true ande mooste greuous sinnes / as S. Paule doth witnesse / sayinge Wherfore the lawe was geuē Without lawe / synne is dead Also where the lawe is not / there is no transgression For howe great a thynge synne is / and also / howe great the wrath of God is against synne / it can not be knowen but by the lawe Wherfore / where the lawe is not pricked forth / nor diligētly and instauntly beaten in to them / there plainely men are Ethnikes and Prophane parsōs / thinking thē selues to do well / yea / and excellently to do the thing / whan they do abhominably synne agaynst the preceptes of God The wordly power doth restrayne ād punish / those manyfest and grosse mischeuous actes ande synnes / but what synne is before God / it can neither declare nor teach / although she shuld take to counsell all the heapes of the bookes parteininge to the lawe Therfore was the lawe geuē vnto vs / that we therby myght learne to knowe what synne is / for where synne is not knowen there is no remyssion / ande grace can not be vnderstand / moche lesse desyred and coueted / and more ouer than is there no vse of grace / for grace ought to fyght againste sinne and to vanquish it in vs that we despayre not Wherfore lyke as it is necessarie for a physician that wyll with praise professe his arte / and be like vnto his name ād callinge to haue the vse of longe experience / and to be exercised moch ād longe time in that science that he maie knowe and searche oute / fyrst what / and what kynde of desease it is and also what are the causes therof For if he shall endeuoure to remedie the sicknes the dysease not beyng knowen / nor the causes of the same foūde oute he shall rather gyue a poyson / then the remedie or helpe of the same Euen so is it necessarie fyrst synne to be knowen before that grace be preached And for the know leadge of sīne / the lawe is nedefull Wherfore the fyrst instruction of a christen mā is diligently to be taught / ande the tenne commaundementes are to be interpreted well / and beaten into the people and that is necessarie to be done in sermons in the temples For reason as I haue saide is a great deale to weake / ād to full of imbecilitie / with all her wysdome / ande wyth all ●…e ●awes and preceptes of all the learn●… men of the lawe / to parfourme that And albeit that we graunt / that chefelie in reason is p●āced and graffed a certeine knowleadge of the thīge chat is honest ād dishonest / yet is that so small and thin●e / that it can not sufficiently knowe the malice ād noughtines of her nature and the greatnes of sinne And therfore god hath instituted by Moses / this doctrine ande preachyng of the lawe / the which he had ceyued before of the fathers The other kyngdome is that which the resurrection of our lorde Iesus christ hath made For by his resurrectiō he wolde beginne ande erecte a newe kyngdome the which shuld resiste synne when by the lawe they are knowen death and hell / ād doth restrayne thē / take them a waye and abolish thē / neither doth this kīgdō teach vs howe matrimonies maie be cōtracted / howe the prouisyon of the house at home and of the publike weale / ande Empyres are to be gouuerned ande ministred Howe peace ande concorde vppon the earth and the societé of men is to be preserued Howe we muste buylde / sowe / plante / ād tyll our landes etc. Of this I saye this other kyngdome teacheth nothing But it is therfore erected / that we maye knowe where we must dwell / or whether we must go from hence / that we maye lyue perpetuallye / when this corruptible ād bodely kingdome will fayle / and the condicion of thys life shall haue an ende / whē oure goodes ād all our faculties / honoures / promocions / houses and landes / the woorlde and what so euer is in it / and cōmeth oute of the earth / ande fynallye the lyfe it selfe is to be forsakē And trulie death hangeth ouer vs / ād is to be loked for euery momente Yf adam had not synned / than neyther death nor any other calamytie shulde haue bene fearfull vnto vs / neyther shulde any daunger haue bene vnto vs / by any kynde of euell But nowe / throughe synne / death is brought into the worlde / and vppon all mankinde From the which no man is sure / no not for one momente of tyme / for as moche as euery moment she hangeth ouer mā But to what place wilt thou flie Whether wilt thou turne the What minde shalt thou be in than Whether doest thou suppose to go / when present death shall take the from hence For this contention and for this agony is the kyngdome of Christe bought / the which for that purpose was appointed to be an euerlasting kinge / that he might be lorde of synne and of iustice / of death ande life Wyth these / the kingdom of Christ hathe to do Vppon these he ruleth He hathe these in his hande Thus the lorde meaneth in this place where he saith Take you the holighoost / whose synnes so euer you shall remitte / they are retayned to delyuer men from synne / or to declare vnto them that those that dwell in sinne / are to be dāpned eternally Here truly it can not be sayde that a woorldly kingdome is instituted of him as the Pope doth glory wyth a loudelye of the keyes of power and right to lowse and binde all thinges / ād by that meanes / to make that sīne whyche is no synne / ād also that Christ him selfe doth not binde or lowse / and so playnely he hath made by that meanes a worldy kingdome But Christe doth here clerely ynough teach what hys keyes are The keyes of Christes kyngdom / ande what they be that is to saye / not to fasten ande to lowse agayne lawes / as the Pope / but to remytte or retayne synnes The sentence therfore / and the somme of the wordes of Christe is In this shall my kingdome consist / this shal be the maner of my kingdom F●rst that men maye knowe them selves to be sīners And trulie that busines is geven in commissiō vnto my servaunt Moses / that by his lawe / he

maye bringe mēne into the knowledge of sinne / not because I wolde binde them for why they were bounde before / ande miserably chayned neyther shall I nowe do first that men may sinne or geve an occasiō to sinne / neither wil I have any thīge to do with sinne as the Pope doth by his lawe and by his keies of bindyng / sayinge / there ●o be synne where none is but I shall have to doo wyth them that naturally are sīners / or have synned agaīst the commaūdementes of God / that is to say / soche as contemp●…e God soche as beleve not in God / soch as despise the woorde of God / soche as gyue not vnto God his due obedience et cetera These sinnes that is to saye the contemp●e of God / crudelite / blasphemie / inobedience and other lyke / are not made by the law of the Pope / but are very sinnes / cleauing and fasted in flesh and bloude / ād borne even wyth man / the which can not be absolued ād takē awaie by the Pope / by the keye as he calleth it of remissyon ād absoluciō / after the sorte as he vseth it / but they cleave styll ād remayne in mā as lōg as he leadeth this life / ād he cā not depose or laie thē a parte vtterly but with the life Wherfore that we maie escape frō these synnes / for the which eternall dampnaciō remained vnto vs / and be deliuered from the payne of everlastyng death Wath the kingdom of Chr●… For that is the kingdome of Christ appointed and erected / ād therfor every where he calleth that his kingdome / not an earthely kingdom or worldly or pollytike / but the kīgdome of heauen because even than it shall take the begīning whē this earthely kīgdom through death shall cease to be / that men may knowe howe after this life / leauing thys earthely kyngdome / they maye come into the heauēly kīgdome Of thys my kīgdom sayth he thys shal be the maner / after this sort shal this my kīgdom be erected / stablisshed / delated ād gouuerned As my Father hath sent me / so do I also sende you et cetera That is to saie The office of the Apostles You Apostles ād your successours vntill the worldes ende shal be my messangers or Ambassadours / by whome I haue purposed to reigne in all the worlde / so that you must take vppon you the same office the which I haue done / vnto the which also I was sēte That is to saie / that those maye be deliuered frō sinne and death / whiche do feale their sinne ād death / and desire to be deliuered frō them Ande contrary / that soche as desire not the helpe wherby they maie be redeamed from them / but do put it awaie / that those beying bound in sinnes to death ād detained / may so remaine This shal be your kingdome / this shal be your ministerie or seruice / ande this shal be your office that you shall take vppon you Vnto this kingdome it behoueth all soche to submitte them selues that are pressed downe and vexed with sinne / yf they wil be deliuered and lifted vp from them / and be partakers of the euerlasting lyfe Vnto those that lygh vnder the heauy waight of theyr synnes / lygh groning / ād are miserablie troubled / Christe biddeth vs to saye / that they shulde be of good cōforte / ād not despayre because of theyr sinnes / but lett them knowe that Chryst by his death and resurrectyon / hath brought fourth vnto vs / the remissiō of all sinnes Yf they heare this ande beleve it / they are saintes and they are saved For yf their sīnes be remitted / than hath death no ryght vppon them But these that feale not nor knowe theyr synnes / nor are feared wyth the feare of death / ande do not penaunce / but procede constauntely / geving them selues vnto bodely lustes / as the pleasure of the flesh requireth / and liuīg after the arbitremēt of the olde man / Vnto these we saye by the commaundement of Chryst / you shall remaine in sinne / in indignation ande eternall death For you aske no remission of sinnes and mercy / ande you do frowardely put from you and treade vnder fote everlastyng lyfe Who I praye the can expresse with wordes howe infinite / howe substanciall ande full of health this cōforte is / that one maie opē vnto an other with one worde the kingdom of heauē / and close vp the gates of hell For as moche as in this kīgdom of grace the which Chryste hath instituted by his resurrectiō we do no other thīg thā that we speake with opē mouth I remitte vnto the thy synnes / not of my self / or by my propre power or vertue / but in the name and steade of Iesus Christ For why he saith not that you shall remitte synnes in your name for no man liuing can remytte or retaine synnes but he saith thus Like as my father hath sent me euen so I sende you I haue not done this by my counsell or arbitrement / but for this I was sent from my father And this commaundement I giue also vnto you / that you do the same vntyll the ende of this worlde / that you and all the world maie knowe this remission or retaining of synne / not to be done by the vertue or power of man / but by the cōmaundemēt of him that hath sent you This is not onely spoken of those that are ministers and preachers of the woorde of God / but of all faythfull Christianes Here maye euery vertuous man / cōforte and absoile his neighboure in the agonie of death / ande other necessities ande temptacions When thou hearest of me thys woorde / then doest thou heare that god will haue mercy on the / ād deliuer the frō death ād synne / iustifie the ād saue the. But thou sayest I haue in dede harde the absolution of the / but who knoweth / whether it be certaine that my synnes also are forgeuen before God I answere Yf I had said and done that / as man or of mine owne or of any other mānes auctothoryte alonely / thā so to saye ād to doubte / thou mightest not without cause / whether the absolutiō geuen / shuld be hereafter effectuall and auailable before God or no. And verely I haue hearde many / euē in the extreme agony of death / doubtīg of this thīge / sayinge / Oh woulde to god I knewe certaīly that my sīnes are forgeuē vnto me I wold buy the certitude therof with all my possiblities and goodes For albeit he be aparaūtly neuer so good a māne that pronoūceth the absolutiō / and as cōcerning his oune parson / neuer so true / yet he that is grudged in conscience ād the minde that is careful / is not cōtēted with him / yea if thou thinkest hī to be a mā / and seest in hī nothīg elles than mā /

that wayes they maie wyth better expedition do theyr office The which thinge if it were not done / they shulde be compelled to renounce their office / and so shulde we be spoiled of the doctrine of the Gospell These thinges are moost true / and in dede of necessyté must be so done Further more if the doctryne of the GOSPELL ought to be Preached purely ande to be sect ouer or left vnto the posterytyté pure / We must prouyde not onely for the ministers of the worde a cōmodious lyuyng / but we must beware ād watche with all care ande study also / that the places appointed to teache in / or scooles of learning / maye haue apte Parsons / and that wi●h oute difficulte the rulers of the scooles / Stipendes must be geuen vnto Scoolemasters and the teachers of childeren may haue also meate and drincke and stipendes wherby they maye commodiously susteine them selues / wherby those maye be brought vp / which in time to come maye be not onely comune preachers or onely apte for that purpose that they maye instructe with the word some one churche / but soch also / that maye gett vnto thē that doctryne and faculté that they maye be able not onely to teache in a pulpit / but also to contynue and resiste these that make secres and madde raging spirites / ande soch as are foolishsly insensed with false opiniōs For this vse not onely the Princes and magistrates / but also the Cytezēs and all the people of the countrey ought comunely to giue some parte of their faculties / that scoles might be preserued / and that the church maye alwaies haue such men / the which trulie she can not lacke / if the purité of the doctrine and the health of the cōgregation or churche ought to be maynteyned For of chese thinges that you haue hearde / you maye easely gather / howe great and howe incomparable a treasure ande not able to be estemed / is the puryté ande absolu●…ō of the Gospell / if it be hearde ād receaued in a true sence of a right and laufull minister / when he commeth vnto the being sicke / and dothe comforte the / thou oughtest assuredly to persuade thy selfe / and to beleue / that Christ the lord him felfe doth comme vnto the and comforte the. For no man wold euer so presume to come so vnto the / without the commaundement of God / neyther coulde any mā helpe the with comforte or counsell / or gyue the any ayde Nowe trvly / seing thou hearest that God hym selfe doth commaunde it / thou maist without doubte / ād with a glad mynde saye here christe him self cōmeth vnto me / in my confessour or curate For he doth not speake his owne but the worde of god / for the whych he is sent and the which is geuen in commaundemēt vnto hym of God This / whan a mā hath persuaded with him selfe / that God hath sent him / and hath cōmaunded those thinges to be declared / than doth the feare and the carefulnesse of the cōscience decrease and is quenched / than is the minde erected and pacefyed wich comforte / and beginneth to haue a good hope / neyther is there than any cause why to waver ād to be in doubte ande to be in a wane hope and to sticke in doubte The whych thing must nedes be in those that followe the doctrine of the pope The Popes doctryne of absolution For that doctrine taught that men ought to doubte / neither dyd that absoyle anye man from synnes excepte he departed with sufficient ande due iustice / and full contricion / ande had cofessed all his synnes Here was no mēcion made / not so moche as a worde of faith / ande of the vertue of the keyes that are institute by Christe Truly thys doctrine ande knowledge was so obscured ande vnknowen / ande playnely buried / that I my selfe / euen than whan I was made doctor / which certeynly ought by no meanes to be rude or ignoraunt in this matter dyd thinke no otherwyse / nor taught otherwyse / then that than finally the synnes to be remitted vnto me and vnto other / if we had done / or had to a full ād iuste sorte parfect or due contrition / ande were confessed But of a trueth / if oure synnes shuld not be forgeuen vnto vs / before that we with our cōtrition or compunction and wyth other good woorkes shulde waie downe the same / ād before that nothing might be required in them / than myght I neuer trust for any remission of sinnes For I can neuer determyne with my selfe that I haue done full and iust contrycion / and therfore accordig vnto that / no man can absoile / whether he be Pope or any other what soever he be So by the popysh lyes the consciences are miserably seduced ād called awaye frō the woorde of faythe and the commaundement of God / vnto his vncerteyne contrition and compunction of harte And this theyr doctrine hath gotten by extortion infinite sommes of money / and hath encreased them with great ample ryches and kyngdomes The occasyon of the popysh power And by thys meanes also / so manye Temples monasteries great Churches / ande Cathedrall Churches / Chappelles and Aulters are builded and indued withe large or ample gyftes ande costes And at thys daye theyr are bulles and Popyshe pardones that are sufficiēt witnesses of these thynges / and doth confyrme those buyldinges ande gyftes / by the whyche the POPE hath wretchelye deceiued all the woorlde / ande hathe by these faierynges / or buying and selligdone so moch harme vnto the Church of Christ / that no man can compryse wyth mynde / nor expresse with wordes the greatnes of that calamité and iniurie For that cause / we do often and diligētly exhorte And let those with vs with cōtinuall studie do the same / that in this case doth helpe vs / as manie as maye / that scoles / cur●s ād ministries of the worlde / be earnestly maintained / least soche an other errour / or rather worse the which thing Sathan doth endeuour with the greatest studie that he can crepe in againe The meanes to conserue the Gospell pure If trulye we wyll preuent and withstande this mischefe / that cā no otherwise be done better / than if the youth euen from theyr yonge ande tender age / be well ande vertuously taught and brought vp / the whiche succeding after vs / when we are departed vnto Christ / maye not onely set forth and beate into the people diligently the pure doctrine / but also maie defend the same / against madde raging and erronious teachers / and put of wycked ād false / opiniōs For trulye it is a great benefyt of God / when soch parsōs are apoīted ministers / the whiche do syncerely teach the worde of GOD rightly and purely And besydes those also / it is necessarie that some be that can preserue learning / and defend