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death_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68865	Catalogus Protestantium: or, the Protestants kalender Containing a suruiew of the Protestants religion long before Luthers dayes, euen to the time of the Apostles, and in the primitiue Church. By George Web D. of Diuinity, and preacher of the Word of God at the Bathe.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1624 (1624)	STC 25161; ESTC S119580	57,841	126

those vowes or what vow of man can disanull the lawfulnesse of Gods owne ordinance 1 Cor. 7.9 Rubrio qui non habit vxorem habent Concubinam Whether is it not better to marrie then to burne Whether is it not more Clerke-like to haue a wife of his owne then which is common among them to haue dispensation to keepe a Concubine It is a ruled case in their Schooles and vsuall in the popish practise in this kinde to dispense with vowes was this Martin Luthers fault that hee married without their papall dispensations Leonic ●●al p. 246. But what is it which our Papists haue to say of the death of this worthy man An horrible miracle saith one of them and such as before was neuer heard of that God shewed in the soule death of Martin Luther damned in body and soule when Martin Luther fell into his disease Hee desired the body of our Lord Iesus Christ to bee giuen vnto him which hauing receaued hee died soone after Being dead and his body laid in the graue on the sudden such a tumult and terror arose as if the foundations of the earth had been shaken the next night after was heard a noise and cracking about Luthers Tombe much lowder then before which waked all that were in the Citie out of their sleepe trembling and almost dead for feare wherefore in the morning opening the Sepulchre where Luthers detestable bodie was laid they found neither bodie nor bones nor clothes but a stinke of Brimstone comming out of the graue had well-nigh killed all the standers by An horrible and dreadfull example indeed if it were true But when I pray was this report raised when was it written surely long before Luthers death And this merry conceite being diuulged abroad suckt in greedily by the Papall faction at length a coppie thereof came to Luthers hands D. White his way to the true Church p. 430. to the which Libell he writ an Answer beginning in these words I Martin Luther by this mine hand writing confesse and testifie that vpon the 21. of March I receaued this fiction concerning my death as it was full of mallice madnesse and I read it with a glad minde and cheerfull countenance c. What my masters the Papists are you not ashamed of these iuggling impostures Are you growne so impudent that you will not conceale your false Tales and forgeries which you inuent against holy men of God till they be dead but publish them in Print in their liues time that they themselues as Luther and Beza did may conuince you of slaunder and of mallice Bez. Epist ad stuckium No wonder then that you blush not to traduce Caluin Iewell King and other worthy instruments of Gods glorie when they are dead But you will say you haue a true relation of Luthers fearefull end and that set forth after he was dead indeed Let vs heare what it is Marry this say they Martin Luther going to bed Coccl vit Luth. Caluinaturcism p. 957. Defence of the Cens p. 66 merry and drunken was found the next morning dead in his bed his body being blacke and his tongue swelling forth as if hee had beene strangled which some thinke was done by the Deuill some by his wife And that as they bare him to Church to burie him his body so smelt that they were faine to throw it into a ditch and goe their waies Thyrraus de Daemoniac part 1. Thes 99. And that a seruant of Luthers being in the Chamber when he died opening a Casement to take in the ayre saw neere vnto him a great number of blacke spirits hopping and dancing wonderfull But did they who relate this see it were they then present or vpon whose relation doe they deliuer it Nay herein they are altogether silent Therefore let vs heare what they who were present with Luther at the time of his death and saw him dying and accompanied his body to the Funerall bee rather belieued then these rayling lying Papists And who were these Albert Earle of Mansfield and other noble men Ioh. Sleidan Com. lib. c. 16. Hierom in Weller Martyrol p. 789 Iustus Ionas Michael Coelius Iohannes Aurisaber Ambrose his his childrens Schoolemaster and many more And what testifie they of his manner of dying euen this That in the yeare of our Lord 1546. the 17. of Februarie D. Martin Luther sickened a little before supper of his accustomed maladie to wit the oppression of humours in the crifice or opening of his stomacke which sicknesse seasoning vpon him hee was had to bed where hee rested two houres where his paines encreasing he called vp D. Ionas and Ambrose his childrens Schoole-master and by their helpe remoued into an other Chamber Into which being newly entred Albert Earle of Mansfield with diuers other came into his Chamber with whom he learnedly discoursed of our knowledge in the life to come of the labours in the Trent Counsell to suppresse the truth of the care which euery good Christian should take to maintaine the truth Giuing himselfe many times to his priuate prayers and soliloquies with God And feeling his fatall houre to approch he commended himselfe to God with this deuout prayer Heauenly Father who art God and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the God of all comfort I giue thee thankes for that thou hast reuealed thy Sonne Christ vnto me in whom I haue beleeued whom I haue professed loued and preached and whom the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the wicked persecute and reproach I beseech thee my Lord Iesus Christ receiue my poore soule And Heauenly father though I bee taken out of this life and shall lay downe this my body yet I beleeue assuredly that I shall remaine foreuer with thee and that none shall bee able to plucke mee out of thine hands And hauing ended this prayer hee repeated the 16. verse of the 3. chapter of the Gospell by S. Iohn and then the 20. verse of the 68. Psalme and not long after this hee commended his soule into the hands of God two or three times ouer with shew of much comfort as a man falling asleepe by little and little he departed this life the standers by perceiuing no paine to vexe him his Funerals were solemnly performed at Wittenberge where by the appointment of the Prince Elector hee was honourably buried in the tower Church with great lamentation of many Bugenhagius making the Funerall Sermon and Melancton the Oration This was the end of that good man whose memorie shall euer be precious in the Church of Christ and flourish as the rod of Aaron laid vp in the Tabernacle Thus much for the Popish exceptions against Luther The next whom they except against are Iohn Huffe and Hierome of Prage the two famous Bohemian Martyrs and learned professors of our religion And what is it which they can say against ●●●m Iohn Husse say they was a very Goose so it pleaseth them to descant vpon his