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1 Pref | of the people, yea, even~God and His Word. They do not
2 Pref | persuaded and believe for God's sake that they are verily,
3 Pref | occupied with the Word~of God, and to speak of it, and
4 Pref | meditate upon the law of God day and~night. Undoubtedly,
5 Pref | than by being engaged upon God's~commandments and words,
6 Pref | he cannot hear or endure God's Word; and God's Word is
7 Pref | or endure God's Word; and God's Word is not like~some
8 Pref | Rom. 1, 16, the power of God. Yea, indeed, the power
9 Pref | Yea, indeed, the power of~God which gives the devil burning
10 Pref | the~profit and fruit which God's Word produces, whence
11 Pref | But~what shall we call God's Word, which drives away
12 Pref | constrained by the command of~God alone, who solemnly enjoins
13 Pref | themselves much more learned than God Himself with all His~saints,
14 Pref | Christians For~inasmuch as God Himself is not ashamed to
15 Pref | learning in one hour what God~Himself cannot finish teaching,
16 Pref | become more learned than God Himself and all His saints. ~
17 Pref | and what excellent~men God will make of them, so that
18 Pref | satiety. To this end~may God grant His grace! Amen.~~
19 Pref2| THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.~~1. Thou shalt have no
20 Pref2| the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain [for the~Lord will
21 Pref2| FAITH.~~1. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker
22 Pref2| sitteth on~the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from
23 1 | worship] Me alone as thy God. What is the~force of this,
24 1 | What does it mean to~have a god? or, what is God? Answer:
25 1 | have a god? or, what is God? Answer: A god means that
26 1 | what is God? Answer: A god means that from which we
27 1 | distress,~so that to have a God is nothing else than to
28 1 | the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith
29 1 | trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other
30 1 | then you have not the true God; for~these two belong together
31 1 | belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which~
32 1 | your trust is properly your god. ~Therefore it is the intent
33 1 | settles upon the only true God and clings~to Him alone.
34 1 | you let Me~alone be your God, and never seek another,"
35 1 | a one thinks that~he has God and everything in abundance
36 1 | Lo, such a man also has a god,~Mammon by name, i.e., money
37 1 | as though he knew of no God. For~very few are to be
38 1 | friendship, and honor has also a god, but not~this true and only
39 1 | but not~this true and only God. This appears again when
40 1 | point~is that to have a god is to have something in
41 1 | elsewhere than in the true God, look for nothing good to
42 1 | confidence be~placed in God alone, and in no one else.
43 1 | no one else. For to have God, you can~easily perceive,
44 1 | true honor and worship of God,~which pleases God, and
45 1 | worship of God,~which pleases God, and which He commands under
46 1 | has set up as his special~god whatever he looked to for
47 1 | elevated Jupiter as the supreme god; the others, who were bent~
48 1 | every one made that his god to which his heart was inclined,
49 1 | of the heathen to have a god means to trust and~believe.
50 1 | is not placed in the only God, besides whom there is truly
51 1 | besides whom there is truly no~God in heaven or upon earth.
52 1 | self-invented notions and dreams of God an idol, and put their trust
53 1 | devils, and neither cares for~God, nor looks to Him for so
54 1 | it experiences comes from~God. ~Besides, there is also
55 1 | presumes to wrest heaven from God, and reckons how many~bequests
56 1 | to~receive anything from God as a gift, but desires itself
57 1 | What is this but reducing God to an~idol, yea, [a fig
58 1 | and regarding~ourselves as God ? But this is slightly too
59 1 | that we are to trust~in God alone, and look to Him and
60 1 | rescues us, so that it is God alone (as has been~sufficiently
61 1 | from ancient~times call God (more elegantly and appropriately
62 1 | arrangement is all received from~God. For our parents, and all
63 1 | neighbor, have received from God the command that they~should
64 1 | but, through them, from God. For creatures are only
65 1 | channels, and means whereby God gives all things, as He
66 1 | give anything except as God~has commanded, in order
67 1 | it may be acknowledged as God's gift, and~thanks may be
68 1 | other~ways and means than God has commanded. For that
69 1 | would not be receiving~from God, hut seeking of ourselves. ~
70 1 | find whether it cleaves to~God alone or not. If you have
71 1 | forsakes everything that is not God, then you have the~only
72 1 | then you have the~only true God. If on the contrary, it
73 1 | more good and help than of God, and does not take~refuge
74 1 | you have an idol,~another god. ~In order that it may be
75 1 | that it may be seen that God will not have this commandment~
76 1 | For I am the Lord, thy God, strong and jealous, visiting
77 1 | from these words how angry God is with those who~trust
78 1 | how they live]. He~is a God who will not leave it unavenged
79 1 | utter disregard whether God is angry at or smiles on
80 1 | heads who imagine because~God connives and allows them
81 1 | that those who cling to God alone~should be sure that
82 1 | hearts in all confidence with God, if we wish all temporal
83 1 | this, nor regards it as God's Word, because it sees
84 1 | that those who~trust in God and not in Mammon suffer
85 1 | a great king, chosen of God and a godly man; but when
86 1 | let his heart decline from God, and put~his trust in his
87 1 | abide and come true, since God~cannot lie or deceive. Only
88 1 | Commandment, that we may see how God~will tolerate no presumption
89 1 | all the blessings which God gives no farther than as
90 1 | his station, according to God's order, and~without allowing
91 1 | rightly disposed toward God and this~commandment is
92 1 | the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.~~As the First
93 1 | the~mouth and tongue to God. For the first objects that
94 1 | question, what it is to have a god, so you must learn~to comprehend
95 1 | taking in vain, or misusing~God's name? answer briefly thus:
96 1 | briefly thus: It is misusing God's name when we call~upon
97 1 | when we call~upon the Lord God no matter in what way, for
98 1 | enjoins this much, that~God's name must not be appealed
99 1 | lies against the~other. For God's name cannot be misused
100 1 | when and in how many ways God's~name is misused, although
101 1 | men make false oaths in God's name, or pledge their
102 1 | their Lying~vanities as God's Word. Behold, all this
103 1 | decking one's self out with~God's name, or making a pretty
104 1 | every one, who disgrace God's name~without fear (these
105 1 | publicly traduce the truth and God's Word and~consign it to
106 1 | by invoking the name of God and using it as a cloak
107 1 | For this reason, too, God has added a solemn threat
108 1 | are not using the name of God~for purposes of Lying and
109 1 | their heart trust alone in God. For by nature we all have
110 1 | be arraigned, the~name of God is dragged into the affair
111 1 | the reverence and fear of~God. ~Thus you now understand
112 1 | understand what. it is to take God's name in vain, that is~(
113 1 | falsehood, and~to allege God's name for something that
114 1 | how to use the name [of God] aright.~For when saying:
115 1 | the name of the Lord thy God, in~vain, He gives us to
116 1 | truly good work, by which God is praised, truth and right~
117 1 | settled. For in this way God~Himself interposes and separates
118 1 | especially to avoid the use of God's name in its~support. For
119 1 | reproof~helps; all of which is God's wrath and punishment for
120 1 | urged and incited to~honor God's name, and to have it always
121 1 | the heart by faith gives God the~honor due Him, and afterwards
122 1 | who is very loath to hear God's name,~and cannot remain
123 1 | our calling upon His name, God did not preserve us. I have~
124 1 | commending ourselves to God, with soul and body, wife,
125 1 | heard, and to exclaim: "Lord God, protect us!"~"Help, dear
126 1 | however trivial, that he say: "God be praised~and thanked;
127 1 | praised~and thanked; this God has bestowed on me!" etc.,
128 1 | pleasing and acceptable to God than all~monasticism and
129 1 | in the fear and honor of God, so that the First and Second
130 1 | the heart that~they fear God more than rods and clubs.
131 1 | so that we may know that God is well~pleased with this
132 1 | Now, in the Old~Testament, God separated the seventh day,
133 1 | for the simple as~to what God requires in this commandment,
134 1 | together to hear and treat of God's and then~to praise God,
135 1 | God's and then~to praise God, to sing and pray. ~However,
136 1 | should be devoted to~hearing God's Word, so that the special
137 1 | sanctified by its Creator].~But God desires it to be holy to
138 1 | we occupy ourselves with God's~Word, and exercise ourselves
139 1 | i.e., daily be engaged upon~God's Word, and carry it in
140 1 | life and being according to God's~Word. At whatever time,
141 1 | neither preach nor practices God's Word,~but teach and live
142 1 | to it. ~For the Word of God is the sanctuary above all
143 1 | can sanctify nobody. But God's Word is the treasure which
144 1 | At whatever hour then, God's Word is taught, preached,~
145 1 | be ordered according to God's Word, if it is~to be God-pleasing
146 1 | that is practiced without~God's Word is unholy before
147 1 | s Word is unholy before God, no matter how brilliantly
148 1 | orders which know nothing of God's Word and seek holiness
149 1 | have heard ) alone through~God's Word. For this, then,
150 1 | therefore, so much depends upon God's Word that without it no~
151 1 | sanctified, we must know that God insists upon a strict~observance
152 1 | frivolity neglect to hear God's Word or lie in taverns
153 1 | other crowd, who listen to God's~Word as to any other trifle,
154 1 | read;~but no one cared for God's Word, as also no one taught
155 1 | taught it. Now, while~we have God's Word we nevertheless do
156 1 | importance, but that it is God's~commandment, who will
157 1 | us and secretly withdraw God's Word from us. ~For let
158 1 | Therefore you must always have~God's Word in your heart, upon
159 1 | Word] is more~pleasing to God than any work of hypocrisy,
160 1 | commandments, which relate to~God. First that with our whole
161 1 | employ it to the~praise of God and the profit and salvation
162 1 | diligently~treat and urge God's Word, so that all our
163 1 | fatherhood and motherhood God has given the special~distinction
164 1 | highly, and that, next to God, we regard them as the very
165 1 | regard~their parents as in God's stead, and remember that
166 1 | and mother~given them by God. They are not to be deprived
167 1 | may be, but the will of God who has thus~created and
168 1 | all alike in~the eyes of God; but among us there must
169 1 | difference, and therefore God commands it to be observed,~
170 1 | reverence, as~doing it before God. For he who knows how to
171 1 | and no one~perceives that God has commanded it or that
172 1 | directed his conscience to God and said:~"If I am to do
173 1 | obedience to my parents, because God has Himself~commanded it.
174 1 | Himself~commanded it. For what God commands must be much and
175 1 | teacher to be found than God, there can be no better~
176 1 | please Him. If, then, it is God who commands~this, and who
177 1 | the spectacle. However, God's commandment was not~permitted
178 1 | or] giving reverence to God. ~Let us, therefore, learn
179 1 | therefore, learn at last, for God's sake, that, placing all~
180 1 | commandment,~if they wish to serve God with truly good works, that
181 1 | work is well pleasing to~my God in heaven that I know for
182 1 | father and mother, to whom God has appointed~and commanded
183 1 | own majesty; so that if God's Word~and will are in force
184 1 | subordinated to obedience toward God and is not opposed to the~
185 1 | heartily glad and thank God that He has chosen~you and
186 1 | Word and commandment of God. Oh, what a high~price would
187 1 | doings they could bring into God's presence a single work~
188 1 | hide when in the sight of~God and all the world they shall
189 1 | devilish perversion in~treading God's commandment under foot
190 1 | astray from the pure Word of God to the lying vanities of~
191 1 | their back, they anger both God and their parents, whereby
192 1 | other's back; therefore God~also punishes them, that
193 1 | mother we ought to wish that God would set~up wood and stone
194 1 | are not equal to~this. For God has assigned this estate
195 1 | This will and pleasure of God ought~to be a sufficient
196 1 | parents, as we all forget God, and no one considers how
197 1 | and no one considers how God nourishes,~protects, and
198 1 | Ghost grant him this grace. ~God knows very well this perverseness
199 1 | gratiae rependi, that is, To God, to parents, and to~teachers
200 1 | hands as those through~whom God has done him all good. ~
201 1 | this commandment] is that God attaches to this~commandment
202 1 | land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee. ~Here you
203 1 | can see yourself how much God is in earnest in respect
204 1 | wicked children]. For on this God insists peremptorily: Either
205 1 | that, by the punishment of~God, they bring it about that
206 1 | well how great a thing in God's sight obedience is~since
207 1 | not see~and believe that God is so greatly offended if
208 1 | mentioned, namely that it is God's command and is pleasing
209 1 | leap and praise and thank God; and with her tidy~work
210 1 | concerned? For in the~sight of God faith is what really renders
211 1 | conscience and a gracious God besides, who will reward
212 1 | wrath and displeasure of God, no peace of heart, and
213 1 | be advised remember that God is not making~sport, and
214 1 | sport, and know that it is God who speaks with you and
215 1 | as through our parents, God gives to us food, house~
216 1 | knows that he is pleasing~God and that he will receive
217 1 | such works are~pleasing to God and have so rich a reward,
218 1 | the word and command of God are so lightly esteemed,
219 1 | what pleases him? Therefore God punishes one knave by another,
220 1 | some godly people~because God continues to grant us so
221 1 | understand the~Word and will of God, and earnestly accept it.
222 1 | guide us by the Word of God; as St. Paul boasts~his
223 1 | obligation in the sight of God~to esteem them worthy of
224 1 | provide for them. For that, God is willing~to add to you
225 1 | this we also deserve that God deprive us of His Word and
226 1 | those who keep in sight God's will and commandment have
227 1 | what is your duty, and~let God take care how He is to support
228 1 | hands and joyfully thank God who has given us such~promises,
229 1 | grain from the~earth. But God wishes to give you all exceeding
230 1 | worthy ever to hear a word of God. This has now been stated
231 1 | places in the Scriptures. And God desires to have it~embraced
232 1 | obligations of obedience to~God; and that, first of all,
233 1 | the honor and praise of God. Therefore do not~think
234 1 | command and injunction of God, to whom also you must~give
235 1 | and all live on as though God gave us children for our
236 1 | children, that they may serve God and the world, and we must
237 1 | possessions for them. For God can~indeed without us support
238 1 | the fear and knowledge of God, and if they~are talented,
239 1 | necessary]. ~If that were done, God would also richly bless
240 1 | because this is disregarded, God so~fearfully punishes the
241 1 | his neighbor.~Therefore God and government are not included
242 1 | they have taken away. For God has delegated~His authority
243 1 | who are in the place of God, that is, parents~and the
244 1 | government. For it is proper for God and for every one who is~
245 1 | this commandment is that God well knows that~the world
246 1 | possessions and fortune~from God than he, he is sulky, envies
247 1 | misery and murder. Here, now, God like a kind father steps
248 1 | at the hands of another, God wishes to remove the~root
249 1 | mirror, to regard the will of God,~and with hearty confidence
250 1 | have been saved. ~Therefore God also rightly calls all those
251 1 | criminal? ~Therefore it is God's ultimate purpose that
252 1 | we have again the Word of God whereby He would encourage
253 1 | Commandment, that He is our God, that is, that~He will help,
254 1 | neighbor~do the same, so that God by this commandment wishes
255 1 | mark, first, how gloriously God honors and extols this estate,
256 1 | train them to the honor of God. ~Therefore God has also
257 1 | honor of God. ~Therefore God has also most richly blessed
258 1 | promote the knowledge of God, godly living, and all~virtues,
259 1 | be regarded according to God's Word, by~which it is adorned
260 1 | is solemnly commanded by~God that, in general, in all
261 1 | exceptions~(although few) whom God has especially excepted,
262 1 | course, as it is implanted by God, it is not~possible to remain
263 1 | degree to avoid~unchastity, God has commanded the estate
264 1 | satisfied therewith; although God's~grace besides is required
265 1 | monks, and nuns,~resist God's order and commandment,
266 1 | blessed~estate and pleasing to God. For in this way we might
267 1 | married] in the fear of God~and honorably; He would
268 1 | the spouse given him by God. For where~conjugal chastity
269 1 | estates, chosen without God's Word and commandment.~
270 1 | property comes next. That also~God wishes to have protected,
271 1 | know that in the sight of God they~are the greatest thieves,
272 1 | their eyes the wrath of God, and~inculcate the same.
273 1 | his duty, at the risk of God's~displeasure, not only
274 1 | wrath and punishment of God; and~when he has long practiced
275 1 | up in your home (to which God will help with all~misfortunes),
276 1 | as long as they can; but God will not forget~His commandment,
277 1 | hoard, but we will trust in God -- who will, however, do
278 1 | though it did not concern us, God must visit us in a different
279 1 | same fashion with~him. For God is master of this art, that
280 1 | this is the~commandment of God, and that it must not be
281 1 | before all the world call God and me a~liar. ~We have
282 1 | keep their eyes fixed upon God's commandment, lest~His
283 1 | instruct and reprove with God's Word; but to check such~
284 1 | acceptable and pleasing to God, and in~addition are favored
285 1 | general contempt. Therefore God wishes the reputation, good~
286 1 | miscreants. Besides the Word of God must suffer in~the most
287 1 | truth and the children of God, and yet esteems it no~sin. ~
288 1 | tongue against a fellow-man God~would have prohibited, whether
289 1 | the judgment and office of God, and~pronouncing sentence
290 1 | hurt of your neighbor. ~God therefore would have it
291 1 | nevertheless does not sin against God's~commandment, because God
292 1 | God's~commandment, because God has on His own account instituted
293 1 | with the precious Word of God~and its preachers. ~There
294 1 | good works which please God most highly, and bring abundant
295 1 | external act. Therefore God~has added these two commandments
296 1 | happen, we must know that God does not wish~that you deprive
297 1 | unwilling to see him enjoy~what God has granted him. And although
298 1 | in possession of it, yet God will not leave you therein;
299 1 | envy and miserable avarice, God wishing to remove all causes~
300 1 | godly we are in the sight of God! ~
301 1 | life may be pleasing to God,~and the true fountain and
302 1 | can be good or pleasing to God, however~great or precious
303 1 | we may learn what pains God requires to the end we may
304 1 | Commandments: ~For I the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting
305 1 | Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
306 1 | which fears and regards God alone, and from~such fear
307 1 | in Me as thine only true God. For where there is a~heart
308 1 | heart thus disposed towards God, the same has fulfilled
309 1 | these two things: fear of God and trust~in Him. And especially
310 1 | Commandment, that we fear God and~do not take His name
311 1 | their own~account, but for God's sake. For you are not
312 1 | anything. But see to that~which God would have you do, and what
313 1 | can, purely from love of God and~in order to please Him,
314 1 | the fear and reverence of God. For where this is considered
315 1 | gladly to do the will of God.~Therefore it is not in
316 1 | commandments, upon which God insists with such~earnestness,
317 1 | highest treasure given by God.~~
318 2 | which~we have seen all that God wishes us to do or to leave
319 2 | expect and receive from God, and, to state it quite~
320 2 | that the~First Article, of God the Father, explains Creation,
321 2 | many words: I believe in God the Father, who has created
322 2 | created me; I~believe in God the Son, who has redeemed
323 2 | who sanctifies me. One God and one faith, but three
324 2 | Article I. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker
325 2 | will,~activity, and work of God the Father. For since the
326 2 | to have not more than one God, the question~might be asked,
327 2 | What kind of a person is God? What does He do? How can~
328 2 | My dear, what sort of a God have you? What do you know
329 2 | he could~say: This is my God: first, the Father, who
330 2 | I regard nothing else as God; for there is~no one else
331 2 | these words: I believe in God the~Father Almighty, Maker,
332 2 | that I am a creature of God; that is, that He has given
333 2 | Moreover, we also confess that God the Father has not only
334 2 | preserved, and kept~for us by God, it is readily inferred
335 2 | good things and gifts of God only for its~own pride,
336 2 | and never once regards God, so~as to thank Him or acknowledge
337 2 | fight against the Word of God. Yet Christians have this~
338 2 | themselves in duty bound to serve God~for all these things, and
339 2 | calamity or~danger, that it is God who gives and does all these
340 2 | the honor and praise of~God. ~Thus we have most briefly
341 2 | we have and receive from God, and what we owe in return,
342 2 | sitteth on the~right hand of God the Father Almighty; from
343 2 | we see~what we have from God over and above the temporal
344 2 | Jesus Christ, true Son of~God, has become my Lord. But
345 2 | when we had been created by God the Father, and had received
346 2 | only and~eternal Son of God in His unfathomable goodness
347 2 | brought us from~Satan to God, from death to life, from
348 2 | spirits. But the Spirit of God alone is~called Holy Ghost,
349 2 | appropriated and enjoyed, God has caused the Word to go~
350 2 | Christian through the Word of~God, which He reveals and preaches, [
351 2 | continuing to hear the Word of God, which is the beginning
352 2 | devil, knowing nothing of God and of Christ. Thus,~until
353 2 | For although the grace of God is secured through Christ,
354 2 | Ghost through the Word of God in~the unity of the Christian
355 2 | forgiveness of sin, both in that God forgives us, and in~that
356 2 | endeavored to ascertain what God is, what He has in mind
357 2 | and worship, only one true God,~yet know not what His mind
358 2 | but the former tells what God does for us and gives to
359 2 | wrath and displeasure~of God abide upon us still, because
360 2 | because we cannot keep what God demands of~us; but this [
361 2 | godly and acceptable to God. For by this knowledge we
362 2 | all the commandments of God, because here we see~that
363 2 | because here we see~that God gives Himself entire to
364 3 | continually resort to the ear of God, call upon Him, and pray
365 3 | duty to pray because of God's commandment. For thus
366 3 | the name of the lord, thy God,~in vain, that we are there
367 3 | to call upon the name of God is~nothing else than to
368 3 | commandments: to have no other God,~not to kill, not to steal,
369 3 | pray? Who knows whether God heeds or will~hear my prayer?
370 3 | teaches, is to call upon God in~every need. This He requires
371 3 | and praying the name of God is~honored and profitably
372 3 | be offered at the risk of~God's wrath and displeasure. ~
373 3 | and in better favor with God than we; as, indeed, the
374 3 | that it always flees from God and~imagines that He does
375 3 | commandment and turn to God, that we may not~by such
376 3 | obedience and commandment of God, on which I can~settle and
377 3 | should regard as demanded by God and done in~obedience to
378 3 | avail, for the reason that God has~commanded it. Therefore
379 3 | should always come before God in obedience to this commandment.~
380 3 | have done the work, whether God~would hear it or not. But
381 3 | precious, holy, and pleasing~to God as that of St. Paul or of
382 3 | of the commandment; since God does not regard prayer on~
383 3 | and rest upon obedience to God, irrespective of our~person,
384 3 | unworthy. And we~must know that God will not have it treated
385 3 | incited to pray~because God has also added a promise,
386 3 | know again that he~excites God to anger as a person who
387 3 | commandment and promise God anticipates us, and~Himself
388 3 | excellent testimony, that God loves to~hear it, which
389 3 | to pray from obedience to God~and faith in His promise,
390 3 | whereby they might repay God, as being unwilling to~take
391 3 | feel nor see it. Therefore~God also requires that you lament
392 3 | have said) to hold up to God His commandment and promise,
393 3 | Father let Thy will be done, God~speaks from on high and
394 3 | use it is not holy. For God's name was given us~when
395 3 | we are called~children of God and have the Sacraments
396 3 | that everything which is God's must serve for our use. ~
397 3 | we pray that the name of God, which is already holy~in
398 3 | since in this prayer we call God our Father, it is our duty
399 3 | from us. ~Now the name of God is profaned by us either
400 3 | and speak in the name of God what is false and misleading,
401 3 | Christians and the people of God are adulterers, drunkards,~
402 3 | Here again must the name of God come~to shame and be profaned
403 3 | it brings dishonor upon God if we who are called by~
404 3 | of us that we must be not God's, but the devil's children. ~
405 3 | pray just for that which God~demands in the Second Commandment;
406 3 | the praise and honor of God. For whoever employs the
407 3 | whoever employs the name of God for~any sort of wrong profanes
408 3 | and to cry and call upon God~against all such as preach
409 3 | ourselves who~have the Word of God, but are not thankful for
410 3 | be sure that it pleases God; for He will not hear anything
411 3 | concerning the honor and name of God~that He would prevent the
412 3 | But just as the name of God is in~itself holy, and we
413 3 | But what is the kingdom of God? Answer: Nothing else than
414 3 | learned in the Creed, that God sent His Son Jesus Christ
415 3 | through the holy~Word of God and a Christian life that
416 3 | begun. ~For the coming of God's Kingdom to us occurs in
417 3 | treasure and~everything that God Himself possesses; which
418 3 | same. But because He is God, He also claims the honor
419 3 | reproach and~dishonor to God if we, to whom He offers
420 3 | unbelief which does not look to~God for as much good as will
421 3 | such eternal treasures of God. Therefore we must~strengthen
422 3 | ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness~and
423 3 | far we have prayed that God's name be honored by us,
424 3 | pertains to the honor of God and to our salvation, that
425 3 | that we receive as~our own God and all His riches. But
426 3 | and believe the Word of God. The world,~however, is
427 3 | us. For where~the Word of God is preached, accepted, or
428 3 | the need which relates to God Himself, yet all for our
429 3 | and submit to such will of God. ~Such prayer, then, is
430 3 | hindered, the kingdom of God~could not abide on earth
431 3 | sort of~sustenance. For if God did not cause it to grow,
432 3 | that by~which most of all God preserves to us our daily
433 3 | though we have received of God all good~things in abundance
434 3 | for them that through~them God may bestow on us the more
435 3 | therein, as that we pray God to give us food and~drink,
436 3 | that these things come from God, and must be~prayed for
437 3 | of all that~we have from God, or to hinder it; and he
438 3 | has a morsel of bread from God and~eats it in peace; and
439 3 | and our prayer (next to~God) did not prevent him, we
440 3 | those who have the Word of God and would like to be Christians. ~
441 3 | Christians. ~Behold, thus God wishes to indicate to us
442 3 | and believe the Word of God, and do and submit to His
443 3 | great need to call upon God and to pray:~Dear Father,
444 3 | neither trusts nor believes God, and is ever active in~evil
445 3 | wrath and displeasure of God, and thus~loses the comfort
446 3 | But this should serve God's purpose of breaking our
447 3 | godliness and~despise others, God has reserved this prerogative
448 3 | that in the~presence of God all must lower their plumes,
449 3 | forgiveness. In~short, if God does not forgive without
450 3 | intent of this petition that God would not regard~our sins
451 3 | in right relation towards God, nor can take such~confidence,
452 3 | we daily sin much against God and yet He forgives~everything
453 3 | then do not think that God forgives~you; but if you
454 3 | of your forgiving, -- for~God forgives freely and without
455 3 | godly now and stand~before God with a good conscience,
456 3 | both the Word~and works of God to tear us away from faith,
457 3 | hand,~to despair, denial of God, blasphemy, and innumerable
458 3 | cry out and to~pray that God would not suffer us to become
459 3 | Prayer, and thus speak to God from the heart:~Dear Father,
460 3 | for: the name or honor of God, God's~kingdom and will,
461 3 | the name or honor of God, God's~kingdom and will, our
462 3 | without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would~not
463 3 | Hence you see again how God wishes us to pray to Him
464 3 | from all evil, the name of God~must first be hallowed in
465 3 | hurt or injure us. ~Thus God has briefly placed before
466 3 | venture, but knows that God does not~lie to him, since
467 3 | positively~conclude that God hears them, but remain in
468 3 | so bold as to boast that God hears my prayer? For I am
469 3 | regard not the promise of God, but their~own work and
470 3 | worthiness, whereby they despise God and reproach Him with~lying,
471 3 | Behold, such~importance God attaches to the fact that
472 4 | first place, that here stand~God's commandment and institution,
473 4 | are revealed and given by God Himself, so also I~can boast
474 4 | trifle, but instituted by God~Himself, moreover, that
475 4 | external thing here stand God's Word and command which
476 4 | confirm Baptism. But what God institutes and commands~
477 4 | and more precious, because God has commanded it, and, besides,
478 4 | name, but in the name of God. ~For to be baptized in
479 4 | baptized in the name of God is to be baptized not by
480 4 | baptized not by men, but~by God Himself. Therefore although
481 4 | it~is nevertheless truly God's own work. From this fact
482 4 | greater than the work of~God can we do? ~But here the
483 4 | us away from the work of God to our own works. For there
484 4 | as noble and good as if God should pick up a~straw.
485 4 | but water comprehended in God's Word and command, and~
486 4 | than other water, but that God's~Word and command are added. ~
487 4 | at Baptism, omit from it God's Word and~institution,
488 4 | you~thus interfere with God's order, and tear away the
489 4 | precious~treasure with which God has connected and enclosed
490 4 | the kernel in the water is God's Word or~command and the
491 4 | command and the name of God which is a treasure greater
492 4 | noble is here added; for God Himself stakes His~honor
493 4 | is able to do, all that God is and can do [since it
494 4 | the~virtue and power of God comprised in it]. Hence
495 4 | all external things~which God ordains and institutes should
496 4 | nut, but as the~Word of God is included therein. For
497 4 | the majesty and glory of God. The commandment (I say)
498 4 | But when it is~added, as God has ordained, it is a Sacrament,
499 4 | the fact that the name of God is comprehended therein.
500 4 | therein. But where~the name of God is, there must be also life
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