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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

whych ye haue hytherto taught and constauntlye now dye in the same He answered with stomake that all whych were present myght heare it Yea And with that he turned hymselfe on the ryght syde and so slept the space of a quarter of an houre so that manye reckened he shuld haue recouered But we lyked nothynge that slepe but from thens fourth with lyghtes we most dylygentlye marked hys eyes Anon after came in Earle Iohan Henryck of Swartzenburch with hys ladye And by that tyme he wexed verye pale in the face Hys fete and handes were deadlye colde and from the hart warde he sumwhat panted but it was so softlye that we verye lyttle perceyued it In the whych lyght breathynge he gaue ouer hys lyfe to God without anye payne to all our iudgemētes For he neyther moued hāde nor fote therī Neyther was there anye of vs as we testyfye here in cōscience both before God man that coulde perceyue in hym anye perturbacyon dolour or other vnquyetnesse of bodye in hys departynge But quyetouslye and swetelye with all gentylnesse of sprete he rested in the lorde Lyke as olde Symeon sayd Now letyst thy seruaunt depart in peace accordynge to thy promes So that thys saynge of Christ in the vii● of Iohā maye wele be veryfyed on hym Verelye I saye vnto yow he that kepe my worde shall neuer se deathe Thys text out of the viij chaptre of Iohā was the last clause that in thys lyfe he wrote with hys owne hāde about x. dayes afore he departed And for a memoryall he regestred it in the Byble of huldrick hans hys frynde whych was there the rent mastre of that cytie And he left it after thys sort Neuer to se deathe What an incredyble speakynge is thys if it be conferred with manyfest common experyence Yet he whych is the veryte it selfe hath so spoken it Trulye whan a man hath thys sentence in seryouse remembraunce stedefastlye beleuynge it and departeth hens therin he must plesauntlye passe awaye and not fele the harde panges of deathe And vndoubtedlye blessed is that man in that worde of beleue whych he hath so remembred in the verye deathe Herunto he thus subscrybed Martynus Luther Doctor 1546. die 7. Februarij After thys was hys dead bodye wrapped in a newe whyte lynen vesture and so layed agayne vpon the bedde remaynynge there styll by the space of v. houres In the meane tyme came there in manye worshypfull and honest cytiezens beholdynge it not without teares of fayth fulnesse and loue On the xix daye of Februarye about ij of the clocke at after none was the corps carryed fourth with great solempnyte and spirytuall songes in their mother tunge into the pryncypall churche of S. Andrewe And manye great prynces and earles folowed the same as wolfangus prynce of Anhalt with hys ij bretherne earle Philipp and earle Iohan with their wyues and whole famylyes earle Albert earle Iohan earle Wolfange of Mansfelde with their wyues howsholdes also prynce Eucrarde with hys ij sonnes earle George and Christopher with their ladyes and assemblyes with a great sort of lordes and gentylmen more and a wonderfull nombre of the commen people Where as doctor Iustus Ionas made the funerall sermon dyuyded into iij partes the first treatynge of the personage and godlye gyftes of Martyne Luther the seconde of the lattre resurreccyon and lyfe to come the thirde comprehendeth serten commynacyons and thretteninges agaynst the truthes aduersaryes that he beynge dead shuld not yet cease to inuade Antichristes blasphemouse kyngedome And thys was vpon the lattre part of the fort chaptre of S Paules first epistle to the Thessalonyanes Anon after at the instaunt petycyō request of the most noble prynce electour Iohā Frederick duke of Saxon the corps was decred to be carryed with solempne obsequyes vnto the famouse cytie of Wittemberge the noble prynces and earles aforenamed accōpanyenge it with great worshypp to the farther gates of Ißlebē And about sixe of the clocke at nyght the next daye after they came therwith to Hallis where as it was also receyued with lyke solempnyte of the senate and cytiezens and so reserued in S. Maryes churche there all that nyght In all the townes vyllages as they came by were the belles solempnelye ronge with no small lamentacyon dolour of the commen people The next daye was it most honourablye receyued of the lordes and hygh offycers of the noble duke of Saxon the earles of Anhalt Swartzēburg Māsfelde other great estates more with a myghtye nombre of horse men and so brought solēpnelye to Bitterfelde frō thens to the cytie of Wittemberge Longe were it to rehearce all the funerall ceremonyes and sorowfull mournynges amonge the common people in the townes as they went As they were ones comen to the gates of Wittemberge at the commaundemēt of the prynce electour Iohan Frederick whych was there present the rectour and masters of that noble vnyuersyte with their great nombre of scolers on the one syde the worthye senate with their great commynalte on the other syde receyued them worshyplye in their degrees Afore the hearce went from thens in order the mynysters of the churches scoles with their scollers they sange spirytuall songes in their mother tunge as their common maner is at buryals Next after the corps folowed hys most Christen wyfe Kateryne Luther with serten sober and dyscrete matrones After them folowed hys iij. sonnes Iohā Martyne and Paule Iames Luther a burger of Mansfelde with dyuerse other of hys kynsfolke Thē folowed the hygh rectour or deane of the vnyuersyte with soch yōge prynces earles and barons as were studeauntes in the same After them folowed Doctor Georgius Pontanus doctor Philippus Melan●hō Doctor Iustus Ionas Doctor Iohan Pomeranus Doctor Gaspar Cruciger Doctor Hieronymus with other auncyent doctors and masters of the vnyuersyte in a comelye order After these folowed the great commynaltces both of studeauntes and also of the common people Last of all folowed there honest matrones and vyrgynes in a semelye order also And after them soch a nombre of straungers as neuer in Wittēberge was seane afore that daye And as they had ones brought it into the to churche they sett it afore the pulpett and sange vnto God their accustomed songes had commenlye at great buryalles in ther mother tunge Then went doctor Iohan Pomeranus into the pulpet and made a most confortable sermon to that most worshypfull audyence whych is now imprented In lyke case Phylypp Melanthon made a funerall oracyon with verye ernest sprete to the confort of that congregacyon whych is also imprented and here into Englysh translated After thys oracyon serten lerned mastres therunto appoynted reuerentlye toke the bodye and so buryed it not farre from the tombes of the noble dukes in the same churche Thus is the precyouse organe and instrument of the holye

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