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A19962	Every-dayes sacrifice Wherein are comprehended many comfortable prayers and meditations, very necessary for all Christians. Also, many comforts for the sicke which are afflicted by the sight of their sins and the terrour of death; written by D. M. Luther, a little before his end. With most true comforts out of holy Scripture of the knowledge we shall haue of one another in the world to come. Translated by, W.R.S.	W. R. S., fl. 1624.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 6398; ESTC S114714	51,362	282

and made him a great Prince ouer all the Land of Egypt So will God also doo with vs his deare children a certaine time will he leaue vs to bée troubled in misery but afterwards will he accept of vs and take pity with his euerlasting mercy will perfectly reioyce vs preserue and bring vs to euerlasting glory A Prayer O Lord God heauenly father which of thy fatherly well meaning wilt keep me thy deare Child héere on earth vnder thy rodde to the end I may bée like thine onely Sonne both in passion and afterwards in glorie I pray thee comfort mee in my tribulations and crosses with thy holy Spirit that I despaire not but according to the promises of thy Sonne doe take sure holde of this comfort that the crosses of me and all faithfull be but a little and that thou wilt with thy grace accept of vs againe in our troubles with euerlasting pitty that euerlasting ioy may follow That I through this hope may with patience ouercome all misfortunes Amen Lamen 3. It is a precious thing for a man that he carry the yoke in his youth MAny a one doth GOD lay his crosse and yoke vpon betimes in his young bloud and youth Although our flesh and bloud doe shrinke for it and would gladly forbeare it yet should wee know that it is a costly thing for a man that hée be exercised from his youth vnder the Lords yoake and bée rocked with the deare Crosse for thereby teacheth hée not onely to estéeme much of Gods help but also to thanke God from his heart for his gratious care hath kept him thereby from so many terrible sinnes which the Aduersarie in his youth did trouble him with And because hee is from his youth vsed to the Crosse therefore is hee patient for hée knoweth well that he shall find no better life heere Therefore hath hee is minde and longing to another world and occasioned to pray vnto GOD for the gracious co●●●ing of his kingdome For such and the like causes will GOD preserue vs alwaies vnder his yoke For when one crosse is scant past there cometh soone another And heere must 〈◊〉 tell an example of a Christian Pastor and Preacher which soone after the beginning of the Gospel did preach in the precinct of Weida This honest and godly man without doubt loued the Lord GOD and his holy Word entirely therefore was the Diuell his sore enemy And GOD the Lord through many afflictions did trie his faith For first not onely hée but his whole houshold wife and children were taken with a long lasting sickenesse of the French disease on which his wise and children died Not long after the horrible plague of Pestilence fell vpon him in the time of which sickneg the wilde-fire kindled in o●e of his armes that hee was forced to haue the same sawed off and was after wards bereaued of his senses that hée was kept in chaines Vpon whom the Lord shewed himselfe so gracious and merciful that he gat his senses againe But shortly after when hee sound himselfe very ill and weake hee called on his deare God with these and such like words O Deare God I thanke thee for thy gracious helpe and euerlasting Redemption which thou hast shewed to mee poore sinner through thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ and let so happen vnto me that thou mightest preserue mee in the same thy euerlasting grace and mercie Oh how many tribulations and sicknesses hast thou layd die vpon me from my youth hast visited me with the French disease Pestilence hast let my wife children die sent the wilde fire into my arme to bee bereaued of my wits and memorie and hast giuen mee the same againe O my deare GOD what wilt thou doe more with me and what is thy pretence Euen at that houre as he thanked his deare GOD for his euerlasting helpe that hee had so heartily accepted of his Soule and yeelded him further to GODS will and pleasure without doubt for dissoluing of this life praying with Saint Paul with his heart the falling sicknesse tooke him by the meanes whereof hee departed out of this life but was perfectly heard As God now dealt with this Christian in sending him one sorrow after an other First on his wife then shortly after vpon his children and his owne bodie c. So will hee often times do with his Christians in this life from their youth and it shall stand vs in good stead For nothing can bee dannable to them which bée in Christ Iesus This same is somewhat a horror for our senses to hear but a Christian should yéeld himselfe with patience vnto Gods will and pleasure as this Christian man did For like as the Lords yoake is a very costly thing so againe is it also a costly thing to beare the same with patience and tarry for his helpe Therefore whosoeuer is subiect vnder the Lords yoke and crosse let him here learne with the Prophet Dauid to comfort himselfe and to pray thus O deare God behold how I am heere in subiection vnder thy yoke with many miseries and troubles I know if it bée thy will that thy right hand can turne away all But if it bée not thy godly pleasure to helpe mee bodily as thou knowest what is best then giue mée the comfort of thy holie Spirit I reioyce and am glad of thy goodnesse that thou hast respect of my miserie and knowest my soule in aduersitie Psalme 31. I hope vpon thee for thou art mercifull My heart reioyceth that thou so willingly helpest Therefore O deare God although thou kill mee and let mée die vnder thy yoake and crosse yet will I not doubt nor despaire of thine euerlasting helpe A Prayer O Lord Iesus Christ the flesh is weake and vnpatient O deare Lord burne hew strike and plague mée how thou wilt I onely pray thee for patience and méekenesse Amen III. Wherefore God layeth the Crosse vpon vs. Esay 48. Behold I wil cleanse thee but not as siluer but I will make thee selected in the Furnace of Affliction for my sake will I doe it WE poore Creatures haue often gone away from God and forgotten him Therefore it is néedfull that he do cast vs into the melting Quen like vncleane and falsified siluer to bée clensed and purified to the end hée may againe haue a pleasure and delight in vs And so wée deliuered from sinne and comne againe into the feare of God may kéepe his word This is for all that no euill thing but the chiefest pretence and meanes that God spareth thy Soule taketh a while thy body thy goods wife and children c. Therewith hee thrusteth thée into the furnace of affliction that thou maiest thereby learn to acknowledge thy sinnes to be sorry for them to humble thy selfe before GOD and pray for Gods grace c. whereas otherwise if thou diddest not sticke in this furnace thou wouldest alwaies goe forward in sin and more and more fall into damnation But now whilst

Man haue gotten againe righteousnesse and euerlasting life Do did an honest Christian at ●reiberge in Misnia in the yéere of our Lord 1547 comfort himself with this sentence and got victory ouer the diuell who did trouble him by reason of his sinnes and GOD's wrath For as hee was troubled in his sicknes the diuell came to him in visible forme with Ink and Paper and sate him downe besides the sick man and said Hee should rehearse his sinnes hee was therfore there to write them vp and to giue sentence vpon them The sicke man was affraid but yet hee remembred himself of this sentence answered the diuel and said he should write The seed of the Woman should tread downe the head of the Serpent Straight-waies the diuell vanished away and left such a stinke behinde him in all the house as if hée would baue choaked them all The second comfortable Sentence GENESIS 22. Through thy Seed shall all the Nations of the earth bee blessed THis is the second Promise and Preaching of the Lord Iesus Christ All other mankinde from the first Adam vntill the last were by nature full of wickednesse God was angry with them and became their enemy for there was no blessing with them but cursing because they were sinners But through this Man Iesus Christ born of the Virgin Mary the onely Son of the Father full of Grace and Truth is the onely right Séed of Abraham wherein all the Nations of the earth must bee blessed if they will attaine vnto euerlasting saluation In this Sentence behold what Saint Paul writeth to the G●lat 3. where hee saith Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the Law for it is written ●ursed is that man which hangeth on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come among the Gentiles in sesus Christ And we doo receiue the promised Spirit through faith In this place Saint Paul placeth these two words one against another First the curse and then the blessing All men are of themselues poore cursed and dam●ed sinners For as the fouretéenth Psalme saith They are all gone astray there is none that dooth good no not one Against the which this blessed Séed bringeth the blessing vnto vs and redéemeth vs from the curse of the Lawe in that hée was a curse for vs for hee as the onely immaculate Lamb of God hath taken our sinnes vpon him and as S. Peter saith Offred our sinnes himselfe with his body on the Crosse Wee should henceforth bee quit from sinne and liue vnto righteousnes or as Saint Paul saith To come to the blessing by him and to receiue the Holy Ghost and be the children of God In this bespoken blessed séed did Abraham trust and was happy Abraham beleeued alwaies on God and it was counted to him for righteousnes The third comfortable Sentence ESAY 43. Thou hast made me labor with thy sinnes and hast made mee weary with thy misdeeds I will wipe out thy transgressions for my names sake and wil not think vpon thy sinnes IN this comfortable saying the Lord Iesus Christ teacheth vs that hee onely hath paid the ransome and satisfaction for our sinnes with his bloudy sweat bitter passion death and that hée through his owne merits hath forgiuen vs all our sinnes in such sort that they shall be wholly put out and cleane wiped away before the face of God and cast into the bottome of the sea as though they had neuer béen and shall neuer be thought vpon Therefore let vs not be afraid of the great●es or multitude of our sinnes that wee despair not of Gods mercy as ●ain Lucas did but c●mfort our selues with the ●●ssion s●t●sfaction of our Lo●d I●sus Christ and some vpon th●s● words So did king Ezec●●●s comfort himselfe E●ay 3● in his great tribulation by reason of his sinnes and the wrath of God where hee saith Behold I was much grieued for want of comfort but thou hast heartily accepted of my soule that it doo not perish for thou castest all my sinnes behinde thee that is thou wilt no more know nor think vpon my sinnes Likewise did King Dauid also pray in Psal 51. Wash me from mine iniquiry O Lord and clense me from my sins then shall I be whiter than snowe For no other washing of anointing on earth can help The fourth comfortable Sentence EZECHIEL 33. So sure as I liue saith the Lord I haue no pleasure in the death of the vngodly but rather that hee turne from his wickednes and liue HEER the euerlasting Sonne of GOD our onely Lord and Rock sweareth an oath by himselfe because hée hath no greater as true as he is a liuing eternal and almighty GOD hée will not that a sinner die and bée damned for euer but that hée in acknowledging of his sinnes and sure confidence of Christs bloud and merites in true inuocation and good pretence turne vnto GOD so shall hee surely obtayne remission of sinnes euerlasting righteousnes and the Holy Ghost with eternall life Vpon this deare constant and true oth should wee haue respect when wee are troubled by reason of our sinnes and Gods wrath and also in our last end and say or thinke I care not now how often and how greatly I haue sinned and angred my Lord God but I look vpon the oath and comfort my selfe that the true GOD hath sworn and hée cannot repent it he will not the death of a sinner so will hee not also that I bee damned but for his Sonnes sake will forgiue mee all my sins and take mee with him into euerlasting life So did the holy Apostle S. Paul comfort himselfe and others as in the first epistle to Timothy and in the first chapter It is certain and true saith he that Iesus Christ is comne into the world to saue poor sinners The fift comfortable Sentence IOHN 3. So God loued the world that he gaue his onely-begotten Son that whosoeuer beleeued on him should not perish but haue euerlasting life THis is one of the chiefest Sayings in all the new Testament which IESUS CHRIST whom God the Father from heauen commāds vs to hear did himselfe bring out of the bosome of his Father and preached the same to his louing C●t c●●● 〈◊〉 ●●holar Nichodemus Wherein he teacheth vs his Father will what the eternall GOD is determined towards the world that is towards all great sinners as euer were in the world or yet may bee that hée loueth them and will not haue them lost And this great loue did hée shewe and set foorth vnto vs when-as there was no other meanes whereby the sinnes of the world might bée taken away Gods wrath pacified death and hell vanquished then spared hee not his onely Sonne but did let him take humane flesh and bloud vpon him and to fulfill all which was vnpossible for vs to obserue and suffer all payne and punishment which all the world with their sinnes had deserued Whereby Gods righteousnesse might bee fully accomplished and wee released

hath iustified he hath set downe diuers examples which in our feare and despaire wee may set before vs for a singular comfort First as these first Adam and ●●e the greatest sinners blasphemers and murderers of all mankinde by whose sins and disobedience all sin shame death and euerlasting damnation came ouer all men and yet GOD made them pure and holy after his owne Image Then when they were fallen into sin and disobedience GOD shewed this mercy vnto them and receiued them again for the promised blessed Séeds sake as the first Euangelicall Promise was giuen to them for a comfort Genesis 3. which they beséeued though they had no example of the forgiuenesse of sins Secondly Abraham was an idolatrous man and serued the idols of Vr in Chaldea to him did GOD giue the Promise of the blessed Séed and made him a Father of all Beléeuers that is as Esay in his fortith Chapter reporteth Comfort my people saith the Lord for their offenses are forgiuen and they haue receiued double from the Lords hands for all their misdeeds But this is double that GOD first remitteth to vs the sinne and releaseth to vs the punishment of the sinne and after giueth vs withall euerlasting righteousnes and saluation that wee may liue and raigne with him in euerlasting righteousnes ioy and glory Thirdly Dauid though an abominable wedlock-breaker and murderer hath forgiuenes of sins for Christ's sake and is saued for euer Fourthly Manasses the cruell and raging tyrant who with a Saw caused the holy Prophet Esay to bee cut in sunder when he had preached eighty yeers in great pain and labour and spilled much innocent blood set vp all heathnish idolatry letting his owne son passe through the fire and lastly offred him vp aliue to Moloch then when he was in prison he turned and humbled himselfe vnto God and prayed him with teares the Lord God did heare him and brought him again to Ierusalem to the earthly and heauenly Kingdom 2 Kings 27. Fiftly what a great sinner was the thief on Christs right hand and other intolerable Vsurers Publican sinners Sirtly how grossely haue the deare Apostles oft-times gon astray How horribly fel Saint Peter when he denied his Master in taking-vpon him so much cursed himself What innocent bloud did Saint Paul help to spil when he was a persecuter of Christ his Congregation For all these Christ prayed forgaue them all their sinnes and saued them for euer Also through them hee did much good in Christendome Seuenthly Christ also had many sinners in his kinred and are so registred which were his Grandfathers and Grandmothers according to the flesh as Iuda the bloud-thirsty Rachab the common Harlot and Heathen at Iericho to shew thereby that he was comne into this world to saue sinners These examples hath Almighty GOD through the holy Ghost written vp for the learning and comfort of vs poor and wretched sinners that wée should beleeue God will forgiue vs all our sinnes for his Sonnes sake as often and as horribly as wée haue offended not that wée should thinke our selues safe and presumptuously sin on such mercy of the ●ord but that we might haue a sure comfort and consolation against sinne and damnation that wée despaire not by reason of our sinnes or flée away from Christ which is the onely sin whereby the world was damned Iohn the sixtéenth Chapter As the Apostle Saint Paul also sheweth vs this profit 1 Tim. 1. where hee writeth thus This is a true Saying that Iesus Christ is comne into the world to saue sinners among which I am the chief But mercy is shewed to me in this respect that Iesus Christ hath shewed patience on mee for example that all that beléeue in him should haue euerlasting life Therefore to God the eternal king the vntransitory inuisible and onely wise God bee all praise and glory for euer Amen A Praier O Lord Iesus Christ thou onely Fountaine of all grace and mercy thou neuer didst deny thine endless mercy neither to Mathew nor the Publican nor Mary Magdalen nor the lost sonne nor to Peter nor Zacheus the Tole-keeper nor to the Thief on the Crosse nor yet to any mankinde Thou hast spoken with fatherly comfortable spéeches Come vnto me all you that labour and are heauy laden and I will refresh you O take care of mee and look vpon mee with thine eyes of godly compassion euen as thou didst look vpon Peter I a poor and vnworthy sinner doo stand before thée laden with so many great sins and offenses that by reason thereof I cannot look vp being both abashed and asham'd before that godly Maiestie whom I haue grieuously offended and knowe not what to say O Lord be mercifull to me a wretched sinner turn away thy wrath and impart thy mercy with me Which I do desire with hearty tears through the merits of Christ Iesus our alone Lord and Redéemer The third comfort against sinne and Gods wrath out of the holy Sacrament Esay 4. THe Lord shal wash away the filthinesse from the daughter of Sion and shall purge the bloudy sinne from Ierusalem by the Spirit of iudgement and by the Spirit of burning Esay 12. With ioy and consolation shall you draw water from out of the Well of Saluation Zach. 13. At that time shall the house of Dauid and the Citizens of Ierusalem haue a free and open Well against sinne and vncleannesse Mark 16. Whosoeuer beléeueth and is baptized shall be saued Acts 2. Peter saith Repent and let euery one bée baptized in the Name of Iesus Ch●ist our Sauiour for the remission of sinnes Iohn 20. Christ saith to his Apostles Receiue the holy Ghost whose sins you forgiue they are forgiuen Mat. 26. Christ saith This is my bloud of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins BEcause oftentimes tribulation grief is so great and sorrow with the combate of death so ouertakes vs that we cannot hastily and in such great weaknesse remember our selues of any sentence or example and that a man begins often to despair whether God hath forgiuen him his sinnes and will be mercifull to him and if Christs bloud especially bee shed for him also so there hath the Lord of his great loue not onely giuen vs his holy promise and set downe comfortable examples especially the holy and worthy Sacraments that is to say Baptism and his holy Supper which hee hath instituted and ordained for remission of sinnes especially to all them that are baptized in his bloud and absolueth euery one of all their transgressions that hée may bée sure hée is also cleare thereof in heau●n before the face of God and féedeth euery one seuerally with his Body and precious Bloud to the end hée may bee assured Christs Bloud was shed for his sins and his Body offred vp also for his mis-déeds and giueth the same to euery one that receiueth the same in true Faith acknowledging his sinnes and in good pretense