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504 i, 3| themselves in some houseto pray, to read, to baptize and
505 iii, k| may be found in thelittle prayer-book.~
506 iii, h| there are but few inspired preachers who can handle awhole Gospel
507 i | i) The Preface of Martin Luther.~ ~ Above
508 i, 1| wherever they went. I should prefer to follow thisexample; and
509 iii, o| empty: and already they are prepared to do the same with the
510 i, 3| must do it, and that such pressure is put upon me as that I
511 iii, a| or a psalm inGerman, in primo tono, as follows : Ps. xxxiv.~
512 iii, k| parts of the church. As to private confession, Ihave already
513 ii, 1| Gospelstill goes on and will probably continue. As, then, we can
514 iii, k| Office and Consecration proceeds, as follows : 'Our LordJesus
515 i, 3| earnest, and are ready to profess the Gospel with hand andmouth,
516 i | could in any wise help or promote their interests, I would
517 ii, 2| kept up andgrasped in its proper sense. On Wednesday morning
518 iii, m| Sanctus in German, 'Jesaia dem Propheten das geschach,' &c.~
519 ii, 1| Gospelsas a whole. Hereby we provide that the layman has preaching
520 ii, 1| servants that they also may be provided for and mayhear the Word
521 ii, 2| Testament. This makes sufficient provision forlessons and preaching,
522 iii, a| primo tono, as follows : Ps. xxxiv.~
523 iii, a| sing a spiritual song or a psalm inGerman, in primo tono,
524 ii, 1| About 5 a.m. or 6 a.m., some Psalmsshould be sung, as for Mattins;
525 iii, i| the sermon shall follow a public paraphrase of the Lord'sPrayer,
526 i, 2| Gospel: but rather of a publicallurement to faith and Christianity.~ ~
527 i, 1| first, in Latin; which we published lately, called the Formula
528 iii, i| should take place in the pulpit,immediately after the sermon,
529 iii, o| Whitsuntide, Michaelmas,Purification and the like, we must go
530 iii, o| enough in German for the purpose. The work is but beginning,
531 i, 2| heathen. So far it is no question yet of a regularly fixed
532 i, 1| others; for I would gladly raise up ageneration able to be
533 | rather
534 iii, o| one to fast; but that the reading of the Passion and theGospels
535 iii, c| c] Then the priest reads a Collect in Effaut in unisono,
536 iii, h| ducks! There arefurther reasons why we keep the Epistles
537 i | to be condemned for this reasonthat they have made of them laws,
538 i, 3| befitsChristians could be recognized, reproved, reformed, rejected,
539 iii, l| reception of the sacrament recognizedand worshipped: and yet it is
540 iii, i| thatthrough His blood He has redeemed us from God's wrath, from
541 i, 3| be recognized, reproved, reformed, rejected, orexcommunicated,
542 i, 3| with hand andmouth, should register their names and assemble
543 ii, 1| before Magnificat, sermons in regular course. Thereason why we
544 i, 2| is no question yet of a regularly fixed assemblywherein to
545 i, 3| recognized, reproved, reformed, rejected, orexcommunicated, according
546 ii, 2| teach the people by,and he relates Christ's good Sermon on
547 iii, o| DivineService, so unwilling and reluctant are they to do so (though
548 iii, k| with thesinging of whatever remains of the above-mentioned hymns,
549 iii, i| us His body and blood for remission of sins; that ye bethink
550 i, 3| befitsChristians could be recognized, reproved, reformed, rejected, orexcommunicated,
551 i, 1| weplease, or as occasion requires. I do not want in anywise
552 iii, l| desire not to abolish but to retain, for it fitsin well with
553 iii, o| strength, and virtue in rightuse; else it is worthless and
554 i, 3| For we Germans are a wild, rude,tempestuous people; with
555 i, 3| instruction, andwere acquiring the rudiments of the Christian faith before
556 i, 3| orexcommunicated, according to the rule of Christ in Matt. xviii.
557 iii, h| whocan do no better, but as a safeguard against fanatics and sectaries,--
558 i | useful and necessary to salvation : andthat is the devil.
559 ii, 3| let another boy read the samechapter in German for practice,
560 iii, i| your hearts to God and to saywith me 'Our Father' according
561 ii, 3| now to practising boys at school in the Bible. Every week-day,
562 i | daily be exercised in the Scriptureand God's Word, to the end that
563 iii, i| leave free to every man'sdiscretion. . . .~
564 iii, h| safeguard against fanatics and sectaries,--acustom of which one may
565 i, 3| will gladly do mypart to secure it, and will help it on
566 iii, k| German or the hymn 'Gott seigelobet', or the hymn of John Huss, '
567 ii, 2| andgrasped in its proper sense. On Wednesday morning a
568 ii, 1| chiefly for the sake of servants that they also may be provided
569 i | take care that liberty be servantto love and to our neighbour.
570 i | could. The Popish Divine Services are to be condemned for
571 iii, o| should be kept in God's servicethat has to do with the Word
572 i, 3| Form and Order wouldsoon shape itself. But I cannot and
573 iii, o| destroyed; or as, whennew shoes have become old and dry,
574 i | profit: and not for God'shonour and the good of their neighbour.
575 iii | sincere Christians, the altar shouldnot be retained, and the priest
576 i | themselves and to make a good show among othersand not be bad
577 iii, i| infinite love which He has shown us in thatthrough His blood
578 iii, o| something new will soon be sickand tired of the whole thing,
579 i | Meanwhile, there is on every side greatpressure towards a
580 iii, l| matter of faith and not of sight, howChrist gave His body
581 i, 2| part stand there and gape, simply to see something new: andit
582 iii, i| us from God's wrath, from sin, death, andhell: and then
583 iii | in the true Mass, among sincere Christians, the altar shouldnot
584 iii, g| Gospel the whole congregation sings the Creed in German,'Wir
585 i | them already), but as a sinner. But, above all, the Order
586 iii, i| and blood for remission of sins; that ye bethink youof,
587 i | andexpert in its use, ready and skilful in giving an answer for
588 iii, o| thee and keep thee,' &c. Somuch for daily Divine Service
589 iii, a| then we sing a spiritual song or a psalm inGerman, in
590 iii, o| gape at something new will soon be sickand tired of the
591 i, 3| 3] But the third sort [of Divine Service], which
592 iii, h| and the Spirit himself speaks notthrough the preacher (
593 iii, i| Testament ofChrist: and specially that ye hold fast in your
594 ii, 2| Matthew. The day is to be kept speciallyfor this Gospel : for Matthew
595 iii, o| teaching the Word of God, speciallywith a view to influencing the
596 iii, h| to the preacher; for the Spiritcan teach better than any Postills
597 iii, i| public paraphrase of the Lord'sPrayer, with an exhortation to
598 i, 2| Christians.But the greater part stand there and gape, simply to
599 iii, o| Only, as one knows, make a start oneway and several ways
600 iii, o| Order has its life, worth, strength, and virtue in rightuse;
601 iii, o| not keepthe Lenten veil, strewing of palms, covering up of
602 i | Christians, or are to grow stronger; just as a Christian hasneed
603 i | but they are themselves stuckfast in them, and hold them as
604 i, 3| good,plain, simple, and substantial Catechism. A Catechism is
605 ii, 1| then, we can be of use to suchand help them thereby, in our
606 ii, 1| thereby, in our judgement, we suffer the custom to continue;without,
607 ii, 2| New Testament. This makes sufficient provision forlessons and
608 iii, o| and the Sacrament. To sum up, this and every other
609 i, 3| the square amongst all and sundry. Those, however, who are
610 i, 3| requisite in the German system of Divine Worship is a good,
611 i | would not have our meaning taken to be that we desire torule,
612 iii, o| they to do so (though God takes nopleasure in forced service),
613 i, 1| in foreign lands and to talk withtheir people, so that
614 i, 1| own language that they can talkintelligibly and plainly with no one
615 ii, 1| After that, an antiphon with Te Deum or Benedictus alternately,
616 iii, o| daily Divine Service and for teaching the Word of God, speciallywith
617 ii, 1| layman has preaching and teachingenough : but, if a man wants more,
618 i, 3| Germans are a wild, rude,tempestuous people; with whom one must
619 i, 3| But should it come to pass thatI must do it, and that such
620 iii, o| like other weeks, except thatthere should be sermons on the
621 i | are not yet Christians, thatthey may make us Christians);
622 iii, i| which He has shown us in thatthrough His blood He has redeemed
623 i | and the same mind; and, to thebest of our power, of like ways
624 ii, 1| arrangement. It has been thecase at Wittenberg up till now
625 ii, 3| Our Father silently and theCollects with the Benedicamus. So
626 i, 3| of the Ten Commandments, theCreed, and the Lord's Prayer.
627 iii, k| bread before the blessing of thecup. So say, both Luke and Paul: '
628 iii, o| reading of the Passion and theGospels appointed for these times
629 i | to Christian liberty at theirgood pleasure as, where, when
630 i | their Divine Service in theirspirits. But it is necessary to
631 iii, k| opinion may be found in thelittle prayer-book.~
632 ii, 3| German hymn, followed by theLord's Prayer said silently;
633 i, 1| learn Hebrew. But He endowed theoffice of the ministry with all
634 iii, o| up of pictures, and all theother mummery, nor sing the four
635 ii, 2| Mount, and makes much of thepractice of love and good works.
636 ii, 3| through the Bible. After thepsalms, the boys two or three in
637 ii, 1| sermons in regular course. Thereason why we have retained the
638 | therein
639 | thereof
640 iii, o| anymisuse arise in connexion therewith, it should be immediately
641 i | above all, the Order is for thesimple and for the young folk who
642 iii, k| chalice and its delivery, with thesinging of whatever remains of the
643 i, 3| direct everything towards theWord and prayer and love. Here
644 i, 1| so deeply concerned for theyoung. If it lay in my power,
645 i, 3| 3] But the third sort [of Divine Service],
646 i, 1| should prefer to follow thisexample; and it is right also that
647 i, 3| those Christians who aremost thoroughly in earnest shall discover
648 iii, o| the Popish Order has been thoughtto have. But all Order has
649 iii, b| eleison, to the same tone, but thrice and not ninetimes. . . .~
650 ii, 3| for Divine Service daily throughoutthe week in towns where there
651 iii, o| wear them no longer but throw them awayand buy new ones.
652 ii, 2| Evangelists in daily use. On Thursday and Fridaymornings there
653 | Thus
654 i, 1| beginning. He did not wait tillall the world should come to
655 iii | may be retained till such timeas they shall all change of
656 iii, o| theGospels appointed for these times should be observed. But
657 iii, o| new will soon be sickand tired of the whole thing, as they
658 iii, l| daily intercedes with God tobestow His grace upon us.~
659 i, 3| beginning of Christianitytill today: I mean, in those three
660 iii, o| When they have no more todo, they are forthwith dead
661 i, 1| whosefaith is so involved in the toils of their own language that
662 ii, 3| and practised in the Latin tongue, through the Bible. After
663 iii, a| psalm inGerman, in primo tono, as follows : Ps. xxxiv.~
664 | too
665 i | taken to be that we desire torule, or by law to compel, any
666 i, 3| as might ensue if I were tosettle everything out of my own
667 i, 3| other and cleave together; tothe end that there be no faction-forming,
668 iii, l| that Christ has bidden us tothink of Him. Just as the sacrament
669 ii, 3| daily throughoutthe week in towns where there are schools.~ ~
670 i | the neighbouring little townships and villages joined in the
671 iii, h| acustom of which one may see traces in the Homilies at Mattins.
672 i, 2| fixed assemblywherein to train Christians according to
673 i, 2| Service, of which we are now treating. This ought to be set up
674 i | diversity of use, we are truly bound to put limitsto liberty;
675 ii, 2| 2] Thus on Monday and Tuesday mornings there should be
676 iii, d| should besung with the face turned to the people, but the Collect
677 iii, d| the Collect with the face turnedto the altar.~
678 i, 3| Service], which the true type of Evangelical Order should
679 iii, h| where there is no spiritual understanding, and the Spirit himself
680 iii, c| reads a Collect in Effaut in unisono, as follows :'Almighty God,' &
681 ii, 2| it be forlectures in the Universities to the learned.~ ~
682 iii, k| John Huss, 'Jesus Christus unser Heiland.' And afterthis
683 | until
684 iii, o| accord to DivineService, so unwilling and reluctant are they to
685 iii, l| preacher He iscommemorated and uplifted, and in the reception of
686 | used
687 i | and hold them as things useful and necessary to salvation :
688 i | conscience, in like manner as he uses such liberty himself, not
689 iii, o| would not keepthe Lenten veil, strewing of palms, covering
690 ii, 3| Vespers,let them sing the Vesper Psalms as sung hitherto,
691 iii | laity.~ ~ The Mass vestments, altars, and lights may
692 iii, o| of God, speciallywith a view to influencing the young
693 i | neighbouring little townships and villages joined in the crywith one
694 iii, o| life, worth, strength, and virtue in rightuse; else it is
695 i, 1| the beginning. He did not wait tillall the world should
696 i, 1| we might not be like the Waldenses in Bohemia whosefaith is
697 ii, 1| teachingenough : but, if a man wants more, he may find it on
698 iii, o| have become old and dry, we wear them no longer but throw
699 ii, 2| in its proper sense. On Wednesday morning a lesson in German,
700 ii, 3| school in the Bible. Every week-day, before the lesson, let
701 iii, o| week must be like other weeks, except thatthere should
702 iii, o| hitherto, with Latin till wehave hymns enough in German for
703 i | without penalty. In fine, weinstitute this Order not for the sake
704 i, 1| the people wherever they went. I should prefer to follow
705 i, 3| Prayer. In one word, if weonly had people who longed to
706 i, 1| to use it where and when weplease, or as occasion requires.
707 i, 3| faith before their baptism werecalled catechumens. This instruction
708 iii, o| may be retained. Not that wewould compel any one to fast;
709 | whatever
710 iii, o| abolished and destroyed; or as, whennew shoes have become old and
711 iii, i| in your hearts the Word wherebyChrist gives us His body and blood
712 | wherever
713 | While
714 iii, o| such as Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, Michaelmas,Purification
715 i | Order for the sake of those whoare to become Christians, or
716 iii, h| for the preacher's sake whocan do no better, but as a safeguard
717 | whom
718 | whose
719 i, 1| the Waldenses in Bohemia whosefaith is so involved in the toils
720 i, 3| head. For we Germans are a wild, rude,tempestuous people;
721 iii, i| outwardly the bread and wine, which is Hisbody and blood,
722 iii, o| be immediately done away withand another made: just as King
723 i, 1| foreign lands and to talk withtheir people, so that we might
724 iii, o| God's Spirit and grace be withus all. ~ ~Amen.~
725 i, 1| did not wait tillall the world should come to Jerusalem,
726 i, 3| German system of Divine Worship is a good,plain, simple,
727 iii, l| sacrament recognizedand worshipped: and yet it is all a matter
728 iii, o| in rightuse; else it is worthless and fit for nothing. God'
729 i, 3| earnest, Form and Order wouldsoon shape itself. But I cannot
730 iii, i| has redeemed us from God's wrath, from sin, death, andhell:
731 i | must read, sing, preach, write, and compose;and if it could
732 iii, k| confession, Ihave already written enough about that: and my
733 iii, k| in the same night'(i Cor. xi. 23 ff). I think that it
734 i, 3| rule of Christ in Matt. xviii. Here, too, ageneral giving
735 iii, a| primo tono, as follows : Ps. xxxiv.~
736 i, 1| will make use of them in years to come? It isfor this end
737 i | better, should let it go, and yieldto us. Nor is it my meaning
738 iii, i| of sins; that ye bethink youof, and thank Him for, the
739 | yourselves
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