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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15667	The consideration and iudgement, of the diuines of the Electorall Principality of Saxony, in the Vniuersitie of Wittenberge: they being required by the Vniuersitie of Iena vpon the question: whether a state of the empire ought not well to consider, whether he be bound to ayde and assist the Roman Emperour or no, in these warres of Bohemia? Faithfully translated out of the High Dutch tongue, according to the printed copy.	Universität Wittenberg.	1620 (1620)	STC 25933; ESTC S121077	8,478	20

thought and the rich not in his Bed-chamber For the Bird of the Ayre shall carrie vp the sound of the voyce Ettles 10.20 and that which hath wings shall tell the matter as it is written in the tenth of the Preacher And that therefore wee ought euer to giue all honour vnto and faithfully pray not onely for the good and gentle but also for the froward and wicked Kings and Princes set ouer vs of God that so we may seade a quiet and peaceable life vnder them in all godlinesse and honesty Now secondly for so much as concerneth the fundamentall maine point of this our fore-mentioned Answere vnto the propounded Question in case of Conscience albeit the same might be very largely handled and much bee alleaged for it yet we will now at this time let it rest and content our selues onely with that which is contayned in the Commandement of the loue of God and the loue of our Neighbour as vpon which two according to Christs owne Doctrine dependeth the whole Law and the Prophets And therein consider whether the aboue-said ayde and assistance will not fall out to bee as well against the loue of God as against the loue of our Neighbour And touching the loue of God like as the Romane Emperours high name and preheminence It is against the Ioue of God to ayde them that persecute the Gospell shall of all men in the holy Empire bee honoured without impeachment vpon the auoyding of the heauiest and seuerest both Diuine and Humane punishments So is it neuer a whit the lesse but much more befitting that also the Honour of the Almighty high God and of his beloued Sonne Iesus Christ the Truth of his holy sacred Word the pure Religion and the enlarging of the Christian Church should bee taken into consideration and care to the vttermost that all humane reason by aduice and action is possibly able to prouide for As being the very meanes whereby the euer-lasting saluation of many and innumerable soules is to bee wrought and effected the Kingdome of Heauen to be planted and a perpetuall Church to be builded and encreased by whom with all holy Angels hee shall bee for euermore praysed and blessed the King of all Kings the Lord of all Lords euen God the holy and indiuisible Trinity blessed for euer And when here it concerneth the Honour of God and the honour of men as whether is to bee preferred before the other then that belongeth hereunto which once Saint Peter and the other Apostles said in the like case Act. 5. God must bee more obeyed then men Wherunto also well agreeth Doctor Luthers Meditations Tom. 6. at Iena in Dutch fol. 282. in his Admonition to his beloued Countreymen of Germany where he thus saith The first reason that thou in such a case shalt not obey the Emperour and goe on warfare with him is that thou euen so well as the Emperour hast sworne in thy Baptisme to hold and maintayne the Gospell and not to persecute it nor to fight against it Now thou canst not but know that the Emperour is herein stirred vp and set on by the Pope and is by him deceiued and seduced to fight against the Gospell of Christ seeing that our Doctrine was openly found at Ausburg to be the true Gospell of Christ and agreeable to the holy Scripture And therefore thou shalt thus answer and say vpon any Summons which the Emperour or thy Prince shall make Yea honoured Emperour honoured Prince If thou hold keepe thy Oath and Vow made in Baptisme then shalt thou be my honoured Lord and I will be obedient vnto thee to go to warre whensoeuer thou wilt But if thou wilt not hold and keepe thy Vow in Baptisme and Christian Couenant made with Christ but persecute the same then let a Knaue if he will obey thee in my stead I will not for thy sake blaspheme my God and persecute his Word and so desperately runne and cast my selfe head-long with thee into the deepest bottome of Hell Now this first reason comprehends in it many other very great and fearefull reasons For he that striueth and fighteth against the Gospell he must likewise needes fight against God against Iesus Christ against the Holy Ghost against the precious Bloud of Christ against his Death against Gods Word against all the Articles of the Christian Faith against the Sacraments against all the Doctrine which is giuen established confirmed kept and nourished by the Gospell as that of the Magistrate and of a temporall Peace and State briefly against all the Angels and Saints against Heauen and against Earth and all Creatures For who so striueth and fighteth against God he must also needes fight against all that is Gods or that holds with God and what end that will haue at the last thou shalt though too late finde by thy owne ouer-deare bought experience And that which is yet worst of all such striuing and warring is done of knowledge wittingly for men know and acknowledge that this our Doctrine is the Gospell indeed whereas the Turkes and Tartars know not that it is Gods Word And therefore there cannot any bee so bad as thou art nor shall any be so grieuously punished as thou shalt be For thou shalt bee ten thousand times more deeply damned then all Turkes Tartars Heathen and Iewes Hactenus verba Lutheri Hitherunto are the words of Luther Yea and for so much as the children of Darkenesse who are learned Catholikes will not ceasse nor be weary to restore again to spread abroad to propagate to defend their Religion with goods and bloud with bodie and life thereby to honour God as they think which Religion of theirs notwithstanding is not any thing else then the verie damned Babilon alreadie begun to fall the very Antichristianisme and as Iames Herbran a well experienced learned Diuine writeth in the Preface to his Theologicall Disputations Sentina cloaca Satanae in qua omnes suas sordes abominationes impietates idolatrias quot quot excogitari possunt ingessit The very sinke and iakes of Satan whereinto he hath cast all his filth abhominations impieties and idolatries that can possibly be deuised How much more then will it become vs as the Children of the Light not any way to hinder but by all meanes to propagate the said holy Truth which out of Gods vnspeakable mercy and goodnesse he would haue first commended euen from Heauen aboue an hundred yeares since not vnto any others then euen vnto vs Germanes and especially vnto vs Saxons by Doctor Luther and from his hand vnto our faithfull hands As for the second point it standeth herein Such ayde is against the loue of our Neighbour that such ayde and assistance will extend it selfe against the loue of our Neighbour if that the Lutherane States of the holy Empire in the Case propounded shall and will runne and ioyne with the Souldiers of the Pope of Rome and of the King of Spaine as the