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A04534	The Duke of Saxonie his iubilee with a short chronologie. Both shewing the goodnesse of God, in blessing the Gospel of Christ, since Luther first opposed the Popes pardons.	Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, 1585-1656. aut; W. S., fl. 1618.	1618 (1618)	STC 14656; ESTC S106548	14,071	29

THE DVKE OF SAXONIE HIS IVBILEE With A SHORT CHRONOLOGIE BOTH Shewing the goodnesse of God in blessing the Go●●●● of Christ since LVTHER first opposed the Popes Pardons Reuel 6.2 19.11 13 19 21. I saw and behold a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a Crowne was giuen vnto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer Printed by WILLIAM IONES dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1618. TO THE READER CHristian Reader It is an abhorred custome of the Synagogue of Rome to publish common prayers in a straunge tongue it would be at least a blame worthy ouersight in these our home planted Churches of Christ not to publish common prayses in our vulgar tongue The former taketh away the possibility of saying Amen with our owne spirits the latter neglecteth a iust opportunity of finging a ioynt though as yet an earthly Halelu-iah with Gods Saintes Receiue therefore here offered to thine hands common praises in thy propper language to wit a Iubile obserued in Saxonie by the translation of a worthy Minister in our London Dutch Church made a reioycing assumed in England Were it not translated it could not be vnderstood were it not vnderstood it could not be a reioycing to the English which get it ought to be because it ministreth matter of praises to God common to them with the Dutch Our rule willeth it should be common For when the Proper in Psal 102. had made it a note of all Gods seruants that they take pleasure in the ston●s of Zion and a promise of their Maister that he would build vp Zion he concludeth in Psal 18. that This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. Now wee and all Gods people wheresoeuer make vp all but one body the Church which is Zion the requickening and recollecting of whose members was in part by Luther effected we haue all but one head Christ the functions of whom and sole effecacy of whose merits were by Luther cleared and defended we haue all but one Faith Gospell which in fundamentall pointes was by Luther professed propagated Seeing therefore this requickening of the Churches members this defence of Christs merits this profession of the true Faith made in the beginning of the next preceding age are here ioyfully recognized let that promise of the rearing of Zion once written now performed stirre vp vs the generations following in England as well as in Germany to praise the Lord. Hereby shall we shew the feeling of fellow members and the communion of Saint-like beleeuers in preferring Ierusalem aboue our chiefest ioy Psal 137.6 Adde we to our rule commanding the examples of others prouoking to make this matter of reioycing common Diuerse other partes of Germany in a godly imitation haue Iubilized with Saxonie and in some places authority hath caused new coynes to be stamped with sentences comprehending the letters numerall of the yeere 1617. terminating the Age since Luther first set vp his propositions These let vs follow howsoeuer perhaps not in stamping the letters of the yeere vpon our coynes yet in imprinting the glad tidings thereof in our hearts You see gentle reader that this Iubile ought to bee common now that it may be more common vnderstand that it is Christian Here is not any Popish rite sauouring of iudaisme thrust vpon any of the Churches For why Rome in an apish because vnwarranted imitation of the Iewish Church retaineth yeares of Iubile as a perpetuated rite of the Gospell the Churches of Christ doe not so Rome appointeth state or set times for her Iubilies the Churches of Christ doe not so This presented Iubile of Saxonie is my warrant The occasion whereof was taken from a prophecy currantly receiued among the Papists though as blinde in the vttering as false in the euent namely that Luthers doctrine should breath out its last with the expiring of an hundreth yeeres Which being layed and weighed in the ballance by the Christian Duke of Saxonie and other Princes together with their owne experimentall knowledge of the now more then euer flourishing and roote-taking of the doctrine of the Gospell both throughout Germany and in other countries they not onely founde that Prophecy to light and the Prophets therof vaine but also thought fit by way of an holy Triumph and Feast as it were of shouting thankefully to solemnize the remembrance of their manumission from the thraldome of Antchrist by the hand of God vpon Luther and through Luther iust an hundreth yeeres before So that the occasion time hereof being of so extraordinary nature no doubt but God is hereby much glorified in that by the same the hearts of his people are more quickened to the more affectionate embracino of his truth so graciously continued And here if thou wilt giue me leaue I will aduenture to make a surer Prophecy then thr Papists did viz. The second comming of Mahomet for the strengthening of the Turkish Infidel and the exterpation of Luthers purer doctrine for the confirming of the Popish shall fall out both in a yeere When this will bee let the Pope enquire of the Musti● and in meane time that I presage truely bee thou pleased to gather out of the Preface of a learned man in Scotland before the Archbishop of Spalato his reasons of departure or there printed Which being full of most worthy obseruations helping to fill vp the measure of our ioy I haue hereunto prefixed Neither haue I onely prefixed these as helping to fill but also adioyned to the Iubile celebrated in the last a Chronologie continued yeerely from the first of that hundreth since Luther as fulfilling that measure of ioy This was penned in Latine by students in Worms and printed at Heidelberge and now translated into English For a more cleare insight into the prosperous successe of the Gospel therein but touched I referre thee to an Oration of that Reuerend and learned Scultetus made in the Arch-Palatine Court and called a Secular Sermon Now this Chronoligy I say fulfilleth our ioy in that whereas among the Iewes fifty yeeres fourtie nine were of seruice the last onely of releasing euery one of our hundreth assureth vs of the release of some either Churches or Persons from Romes Aegiptian bondadge and Babilonish captiuitie howsoeuer in indeede Marke-Anthonie de Dominis may well make the last notoriously solemne This in breife of the Gospells Iubile with a word more of the Popish I will conclude The Papists forsooth hearing of this Iubilizing of Christ his Churches thought it stood not with the policy of there kingdome to sit still leaning on their elbowes and hanging their eares How then They put good faces on it force out a laughter and celebrate a Iubile Did they not feare may we thinke that the report of our ioyfull release would cause many to free themselues from their bonds But see we what the celebrate A Iubilee surely but verba-tenus in name onely reatenus in