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A75873	The life and death of Dr Martin Luther the passages whereof haue bin taken out of his owne and other godly and most learned, mens writings, who liued in his time.; Martinus Lutherus. English	Adam, Melchior, d. 1622.; Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Holtman, The., engraver.	1641 (1641)	Wing A505; Thomason E207_5; ESTC R15137	91,298	166

well require all my paines my course of worshipping God and prayer might wholly busie me my paines in expounding Scripture by writing my writing Epistles my care of other mens affaires taketh up my time my converse with my friends which I use to call a feeding of my corps doth very badly steale away a great part of my time It was his usuall course either to meditate or to read or preach or to give good counsel to his friends so that he was never idle He was very liberall to the poore Luthers liberality On a time when a student asked some money of him he bad his wife give him some thing and when she excused the matter in regard of their penurie at that time he tooke up a silver cup and gave it to the Scholler and bid him sell it to the Gold-smith and keep the money for his occasions When a friend sent him 200. angels of gold from the metal-mines he bestowed them all on poore students When Iohn the Electour gave him a new gowne he said Mathes in his serm p. 144. that he was made to much of for if here we receive a full recompence of our labours we shall hope for none in another life When the same Electour offered him a vayne of Metals at Sneberg he refused it lest he should incurre the tentation of the Devill who is Lord of treasure under the Earth Tom. 2. ep pag. 342. He tooke nothing of Printers for his copies as he writeth saying I have no plenty of money and thus yet I deale with the Printers I receive nothing from them for recompence of my many copies How he dealt with Printers sometimes onely I receive of them one copie This I think is due to me whereas other writers yea translaters for every eight leaves have an Angel Concerning money given him thus he writeth The hundreth Angels given me I received by Tanbenhem and Schart gave me fifty that I stand in feare that God will give me my reward here But I protested that I would not so be satisfied by him I will either presently repay it or spend it For what should I doe with so much money I gave one halfe of it to P. Prior and made him a joyfull man His loving affection to his children He was very lovingly affectioned towards his children and gave them liberall education He kept in his house a Schoole-master to traine them up in good arts and a godly life When he saw Magdalen his eldest daughter ready to die he read to her that in Esay 26.19 Thy dead servants shall rise againe together with my dead body shall they arise Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust For thy dew is as the dew of hearbs and the earth shall cast out the dead Come my people enter into thy chambers and shut thy doores about thee Hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be over-past My daughter enter thou into thy chamber with peace I shall ere long be with thee For God will not permit me to see the punishments hanging over the head of Germany And upon this wept plentifully But in publique when he went along with the Herse he bridled his affection and was not seene to shed one teare And as all men of excellent spirits have a zealous anger in due place His anger zeale So Luther by nature was vehement but yet placable As appeareth in this that when Melancthon much moved to passion once came unto him and all the rest were very mute Luther uttered this verse Vince animos irámque tuam qui caetera vincis Thine owne heart overcome thy fury tame VVho all things els hast stoutly overcame And then smiling said we will not further dispute of this matter and turned his speech to other occasions He foresaw and foretold many things as the combustion which rose in Germany saying Tom. 2. epist p. 10. p. 207. I am very much afraid that if the Princes give eare to Duke George his ill counsell there will arise some tumult which will destroy all the Princes and Magistrates in all Germany and ingage in it all the Clergy Of the death of Frederik Elector of Saxony thus he writeth Tom. 2. epist. pag. 10. If God in heaven hath resolved in wrath to deale with us that neither our prayers nor counsels of amendment can hinder it let us obtain this that our Josias may sleep in peace though the world be left to go into its Babylon Of the covetousnesse of Germany and the dearth there thus he speaketh We feare famine Tom. 2. epist. pag. 207. and we shall suffer it and finde no remedie for it And when as without necessitie we are solicitous to prevent famine like wicked and incredulous Gentiles and neglect the word of God and his work he will permit shortly a dismall day to come upon us which will bring with it whole Wain-loads of cares which we shall neither have power or meanes to escape Divers other things he also foretold Of Luthers He●l●● He had his health competently well but that sometimes he was troubled with headach especially in his elder yeeres Whereupon he was afraid of some violent A●oplexie and when he felt a swimming in his head or noyse in his eares he used to say Lord Iesu smite me gently for I am absolved from my sins according to thy word and am fed unto life eternall by thy body and bloud Thine Apostle John and our Elector were taken out of this world by this kinde of death He endured often tentations whereupon he said All here are in health except Luther who is sound in body and without suffers at no mans hand in the world onely the Devil and all his Angels vex him Of Luthers person He was of an indifferent stature of strong body of so Lionlike a quicknesse of his eyes that some could not endure to look directly upon him when he intentively beheld them They say that one of mild spirit who could not endure in private to talk with Luther was courteously used by Luther yet was so pierced with the quicknesse of his eyes that being amazed he knew no course better then to run from him His voyce was mild and not very cleare whereupon when on a time there was mention at table about Pauls voyce which was not very perfect and full Luther said I also have a lowe speech and pronuntiation To whom Melancthon answered But this small voyce is heard very farre and neere Of his wife and children after his ●eath In wedlock he lived chastly and godly above twentie yeers and when he died left three sonnes and Catharin de Bora a widow who lived after his death seven yeeres To her it was a great grief that her husband died in a place farre from her so that she could not be with him and performe the last conjugall offices to him in his sicknesse In the time of the warre which

liable to extreame danger But there is no counsell no power prevalent against the Lord who most admirably defended Luther living and dead against all his adversaries Whilest he lived he had most potent most subtle enemies and in a word Secret plots against Luther all Antichrists kingdome nor onely did the Pope and his Bishops his Universities and other Sophisters openly set upon him with Buls and Treatises published but designed to take him away closely with poyson daggers guns and other meanes Concerning secret plots against him they be well known He thus speaks of them There * is here a Polonian Jew hired with two thousand crownes to poyson me my friends have disclosed the plot to me by their letters He is a Doctor of Physick and dare attempt any thing and will go about it with incredible craft and celerity This very houre I caused him to be apprehended what the event will be I cannot say This is the news To Spalatinus also a Tom. 2. epist. 271. he wrote that there were many Actors of the plot whom he would not have wrackt if they would not voluntarily confesse by whom they were suborned but endeavoured to have them set at libertie Yet he addeth Though I am fully perswaded that he was the man descried unto me The Papists designes all marks of him did so rightly answer the description sent to me Again what the Papists did attempt the words of Alexander the Popes Legate do well declare Of w● h Luther thus speaks Spalatinus writeth b Tom. 2. epist p. 8. that Alexander was bold to say Though you Germans who pay the least summes of money to the Pope have shaken of the yoke of servitude yet we will take a course that ye shall be consumed with civill broyles and perish in your own bloud Concerning the fables and lies cast abroad in his life time what should I say Lies against Luther Of his countrey and p●rentage it was bruited that he was a Bohemian and borne of as they call them heretical Parents Then they layd aspersions upon his promotion at Wittenberg and defamed it with sundry lies Heare what he wrote to Spalatinus That Embassador Tom. 2. epist p. 8. or I know not what of Ferdinands was with me to see what manner of man I was and how I carried my selfe He sayd that it was told his Master that I went up and down armed and guarded and did spend my time among Queanes divers tavern hunters and was notorious among all men with I know not what other the like honours But I am now well inured to such lies How often was he reported to fly to the Bohemians how often were scandals raysed from his writings Tom. 2. ep p. 71. 85. 289. how often was he cal'd a flatterer of Princes a trumpet of sedition His bold speech and vehemency was a string much harped upon Whence he saith of himselfe Almost all men * Tom. 2. ep pag. 6. condemne me of two much eagernesse But I am of your mind that it is Gods will to have the inventions of men in this manner thus revealed For I see matters in this our age quietly handled to be quickly forgotten and no man to regard them And again * Tom. 1. ep p. 292. Yet do not I deny but that I am more vehement then is fit which thing seeing they know so well they should refraine from provoking me How hard a thing it is to bridle the pen you may well enough learne by your selfe And this is the reason why I have ever been averse from shewing my selfe in publique matters but the more averse that I was so much the more was I carried against my owne desire yet never unlesse most grievous wrongs were done the Word of God or my selfe for its sake Whereupon it fell out that had I not been apt by nature to vehemency and imbittering my style the very indignity of the matter would have urged a dead and stony heart to write sharply how much more my selfe who am of an ardent spirit write not a dul stile Monsters of men carried me beyond the due temper of modesty For the warrant of this sharpnes he used to alleadge the example of Christ who called the Jewes an adulterous perverse generation a generation of Vipers hypocrites children of the Devill and Pauls example who calleth them dogs va ne bablers seducers illiterate yea Act. 13. most sharply inveighes against the false Prophet Moreover Erasmus often used to say In regard of the height of the diseases of this last age of the world God hath sent them a sharpe Physitian Also Charles the Emperour sayd If the Popes Priests were such as they should be they would not need a Luther Further he had divers spirituall tentations and terrible buffets of Satan as namely in his sicknesse at Coburg and at other times when his body was weake These much afflicted him and sometimes made him lie as one dead but by physick applyed for his cure and reading the Scripture and singing of Psalmes which he used to call them about him unto he was recovered and eased of those affrights and esteemed them but as the Devils traps from which God would deliver him In the dismall warre of Germany Charles the Emperour kept the souldiers from digging up Luthers bones scarce could the souldiers be restrained from exercising their cruelty upon his dead corps For when Wittenberg yeelded to the Emperour Charles and he came to see the towne the Spaniards would have digged up Luthers tombe and burnt his body Charles the fifth as faithfull witnesses have related said Suffer him to rest till the day of resurrection and the Iudgement of all men But in the beginning of Luthers preaching he minded not to have proceeded so farre Tom. 1. ep Luth. p. 230. b. as the issue drew him to For An. 1520. he thus wrote I will offer them silence with all humility so that others be also silent For I will omit nothing on my part which may conduce to peace and have ever been carefull so to doe I will therefore make ready an humble letter to the Pope If matters prove calme as I hope it is well If not it is well also for it is Gods pleasure so to have it He often purposed also to have departed from the Papists malice For thus he writeth to Spalatinus Had not your letter come to my handes I had prepared to have gone out of the way And yet I am ready to be gone or to stay And againe I have not free liberty to speake or write If I goe hence I will poure out my whole mind and offer my life to Christ Luther discerned not all truth at first Tom. 1. ep pag. 130. He daily more and more discerned Gods truth and could not wind himselfe out of some errours in the beginning presently for about the invocation of Saints thus he wrote An. 1518. My good Spalatinus I never judged that