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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

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

ryches be remoued hens farre of / nowe may there not / neither ought any respect to be had of those thinges But nowe must we betwyxt vs entreate and talke of the Kyngdome of Chryste / by the which onely / and by none other thou canst be delyuered frō synne and death This truly is not a forrayne ande a worldlye power and dominion / but it is an office and a ministerie For here truly I seke for nothing of the / I neither hawke nor wowe for any thinge wherby I maye be enryched / or to be lorde ouer the / and wherby I maye make the subiect vnto me / ād to make the my handseruaunt / but I serue ande do exhibit the greatest offyce that maye be vnto the. I brynge vnto the a great ād inestymable treasure / not golde or syluer / but where as thy harte that is oppressed wyth heauy care / doth covet to be comforted / delyuered ande confyrmed / ande to haue GOD mercyfull vnto the in heauē Therfore come I vnto the brīging vnto the / the moost true Gospell or tidings that is moost gladdest / moost pleasaunt and moost to be desyred / not of my selfe / not of my good intent / or of my propre coūsell / but by the commaūdemēt and message of Chryst Who saith / Come you all vnto me / that labour ād are ladē / I shall refresh you Also / These thiges whiche ye lowse vppon earthe / shal be lowsed in heauē / or els as he sayth here Vnto whome you shall remitte their sinnes / vnto thē are they forgeuen etc. Is not thys to serue Is it not an office that is greatest of all and not to be compared withall for any mā to do the better / when thankfully I bringe vnto the an inestimable treasure that is heauenly ande euerlastynge Whyche neyther thou / nor all the woorlde with all the goodes ād riches in it cā neither match nor buy with money For what are the vniuersall treasures of all the world / the Iewelles of all kinges / crownes / goodes / golde / precious stones / and what soever it maketh moost of / ande doth wonder at it / what are all those thīges in comparyson of this treasure / that is to say / the remissiō of sīnes / by the whyche thou arte delyuered from the tyrannye of the Devell / of death ande of hell And arte certyfyed that God the heauenlye Father wil be mercyfull vnto the / And so mercyfull / that for Chrystes sake / thou must be the sonne and heyre of God / ande the brother and coheyre of Chryste Wherfore soche ande so great a treasure as this is / can not be bought or solde / or wayed equally with money / the which thynge the same our Iudas Iscarioth the pope hath done For excepte it be geuen ande taken thanckfully / and wyth mere grace / ther is no cause why that thou shuldest trust to enioye the same thyng / or to take by it any commodyté For the gyfte of God is not gotten with money Truly I would not that any mā shuld thynke that I haue spoken these thynges as though nothynge ought to be geuen or employed vppon the mynysters of the church which syncerely and trulye teach the worde of God / wherby they may nourish them selues / the which thinge at this daie certeyne parsons do gladlye in many places / which do so envie their curates ande ministers of their churches / that almoost they numbre ande measure everye morsell of meate that commeth within theyr Iawes / by all waies ande meanes that they can They steale and pike vnto them selues those ecclesiasticall goodes / wyth the which the pastours and mynisters of the worde of God ought to be nourisshed And in so doying they declare opēly / that they re studie is to driue the ministers of the worde vnto extreme pouerté ad daūger of famyne / and so to dryue them from them / that there maye be none to teache / or to checke their vices Truly what disturbaunce hereafter shall come What desolation of the Church What myserie Nowe great a barbarousnes shal there of follow we shall proue that / and that shortely / excepte the magistrates fynde some remedy for this myschefe In no case therfore do I speake these thinges / nor yet so these thinges ought to be vnderstāde / as who shulde saye / that nothing shuld be geuen vnto the ministers of the Churche For these thinges are dewe wnto thē wherby they may nourish ande susteyne commodiously and easely / them selues ād their familie For except they haue wherwyth to lyue / wherwith to cladde them selue / where to dwell / and howe to defende them selues / agaynst the iniurie of colde ande heate / they can not longe do their office / but they shal be compelled forsakynge theyr offyce of teachynge to seke and finde howe to kepe them selues The which thinge when it cometh to passe / the Gospell can noth longe remaine The which thing the deuell doth ād seketh for the same purpose / that by this occasyon he may take oure of the way and let the doctrine of the Gospell A stypende is dewe vnro the ministers of the Chu●ch / 〈◊〉 the ordenaūce of God And that thinges are dewe vnto them / wherby they maie aptely nourish thē selues / Christe doth teache that openly where he saith The labourer is worthy of his reward S. Paul also He that is instructed / must cōmunicate vnto him that doth instructe him in all good thinges And he dothe adde a terme / wherby iustly those wicked parsons ought to be feared / the which is this God is not mocked Also 1 Timoth. the. 5. Seniour or prestes that are righte in auctorne / or that do gouuerne well / are worthy to be had in doub●… honour specially those that by worde ande teaching do laboure If that therfore stipendes be geuen vnto other that are publike officers in thiges that they serue vnto a communalté / that by the same they maye with more expedition serue the turne wherunto they are called / moch more is it dewe vnto the ministers of the worde / for trulie when we haue wyth all diligence and good will / geuen vnto them all thinges / wherby they may lyue commodiously / yet must ye saye this This stipend / this money or this grayne which we geue vnto the curate or minister of the worde / we geue it not for sermons or absolutiō the which are not the propre thīges of those ministers but of God / ande therfore they can not be solde of them for money but for as moch as God hath so ordained / that we shuld heare ande receaue the worde and his Sacramentes / of menne Therfore is it necessarie that they be norisshed of the comun charge / or of the publike treasure / or by our comune wagis And we shall geue thē with glad mide / that they maie haue whervppō to liue / and that by