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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

hystorye so conforme to the matter we haue now in hande Thys mastre Ambrose was verye nygh of kynne to S. Martyne Luther whych caused hym oft tymes to frequent hys cumpanye both in hys syckenesse and afore And these were the last wordes that euer he spake vnto hym Mastre Doctour I thanke yow of your gentyll vysytacyon I hope as gentyllye to vysyte yow agayne where we shall togyther commen of most ioyfull causes And now in dede they maye commen those matters in an other lyfe and holde soch heauenlye felyshypp as they neuer coulde do here The same verye tyme that Doctour Martyne went so from hym I am wele remembred that he sayd thus vnto me Thysman is surelye gone though he seme styll here For he knoweth no maner of thynge perteynynge to the fleshe nor yet to deathe Whan we put hym in mynde of hys matters he knoweth not the worlde nor yet thys lyfe He is merye he ioyfullye laugheth and propouneth vnto vs in hys innocent state most wonderfull mysteryes But in the ende he derydeth vs. As who shuld saye fare ye wele now I haue nomore to do with thys worlde The lorde of hys infynyte mercye sayth he at the last graunt me soch a gracyouse ende that in the houre of deathe I nothynge remembre thys worlde In lyke maner at an other season after the seyd Ambrose was buryed in the yeare of our lorde a M.D.XLII in the monthe of Ianuarye as he one daye passed by he poynted with hys hande to hys graue and sayd vnto me Thys mā neyther felte hymselfe sycke neyther yet reckened of deathe yet was he neuer without Christes knowledge Here lyeth he inclosed whych yet knoweth of no deathe O lorde Iesus Christ I besyche the wore saue to take me so from thys myserable lyfe Yea manye tymes sayd thys blessyd father here both to me and to other Praye vnto our most mercyfull father that he shortlye take me vnto hym for here can I nomore do neyther yet am I anye longar profytable vnto yow Helpe me hens with your prayers prolonge not my lyfe on the earth Herbye maye ye wele perceyue that he had no great pleasure here but that hys full desyre was as was Saynt Paules to be dysolued and with Christ. He sange hys consummatum longe afore he departed commyttynge hys sowle to the handes of God Manye other prognostycacyons we had or sygnes asore hande of hys goynge awaye from vs. For all the yeare afore he sayd oft tymes vnto vs that he coueted to iournaye an other waye And as he desyered so came it to passe For as the noble earles of Mansfelde had sent for hym into hys owne natyue cytye of Ißleben by hys ghostlye counsell to quyet their matters of controuersye as he ded most gracyouslye he deceased there clerelye from thys lyfe The maner of thys Christen departynge ye haue in writynge by dyuerse men lerned of most grounded testymonye whych were there present with the prayer whych he made afore he gaue vp hys lyfe Whych here to repete were superfluouse Here am I cōpelled to call to remembraunce the holye Byshopp S. Martyne In whose hystorye Seuerus Sulpicius mencyoneth that the Arryanes all other heretykes trembled as they hearde hym but named and that there was amonge the Chrysten beleuers sore lamentacyon and mournynge at hys buryall More ouer that after hys deathe was great dysputacyon betwyn certen cyties whych of them shulde retayne hys bodye And all thys hath also as ye knowe full wele chaunce ●o our Martyne here the elect Apostle and Prophete of God to withstande the great Antichrist in thys worthye lande of the Germanes Hym hath Christ now in hys dere bosome reseruynge hym to honoure for that he so inteyrlye loued hym and hys true churche Vnto vs hys posteryte the lorde graunt hys double sprete specyallye in those churches whych he here so frutefullye planted lyke as the Prophete Eliseus desyred of Helias as he was from hens translated If we thynke that God for our synnes and vnthankefulnesse hath depryued vs of hym lete vs studyouslye amende our lyues and desyre of the same God our mercyfull father that we maye frō hēs forth perseuer in the pure doctryne and syncere Christen faythe and that Christ therin maye defende vs from sectes tyrauntes and the gates of helle Most gracyouse lorde Iesus Christ defende now thy carefull congregacyon that they perpetuallye maye prayse the a ryght Helpe vs our mercyfull God redemer and delyuer vs for the glorye of thy mo●● holye name Be fauourable to our inyquytees for thy gracyouse promes sake Conserue in our churche the syncere and faythfull mynysters Graunt them by thy holye sprete thy myghtye strēgth and power as the 67. Psalme specyfyeth God with stronge wordes wyll assyst hys preachers Truth is it that both the vnshamefast and horryble blasphemyes of the obstynate papystes and monkes and also our daylye vnthankefulnesses and vyces haue deserued sore plages and penaltees Yet lete vs not cease to call vpō god our most mercyfull father with amendemēt that he defende vs from all false worshyppynges for hys onlye sonnes sake our lorde Iesus Christ. And that thys prophetycall verse or Epitaphe of our fathers owne makynge maye be clerelye fulfylled Pestis eram uiuens moriēs ero mors tua papa Alyne I was thy pestylence Thu Antichrist thu pope of Rome And now I dead wyll be from hence Thy deathe thy most dredefull dome God haue the prayse for euer Amen The Christen prayer of the most noble prynce electour Iohan Frederick duke of Saxon in hys godlye warres agaynst Antichrist hys vpholders Translated by Iohan Bale O Lorde eternall and my God in the put I all my trust Preserue me frō my pursuers and kepe me out of their cruell hādes Lete them not rauyne me vp as the lyon the shepe neyther yet teare me in peces whyle there is non to assyst me O lorde and my God if I haue done soch thynge as the pope and Emprour do now laye to my charge as that I shuld support yll doctryne and renoūce true obedyence If I haue done euyll to anye faythfull seruaunt of thyne or begunne thys warre vncompelled Suffer myne enemyes to vexe me and take me yea lete them treade my lyfe into the earthe and throwe my honoure my power possessyons and peoples with all that thu hast geuen me into the dust But thu my ryghteouse lorde God knowest the hartes of vs both Therfor stande vp lorde strongelye in thy wrathe and shewe thy selfe as a myghtye God agaynst the furyouse indygnacyons of myne enemyes Establysh me a freshe in the offyce wherwith thu hast charged me that in myne owne landes and amonge myne owne folke I maye dwell in peace That they maye into a faythfull congregacyon be gathered vnto the and not to the pope Lete them heare thy blessyd worde lorde and not hys call vpon thy

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