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1 Pref2| covet thy neighbor's house. ~10. Thou shalt not covet thy
2 1 | written of the wicked, Ps. 109,13: Let his posterity~be
3 3 | Prayer, and says, Matt. 6,14: For if ye forgive men their~
4 1 | Psalms, as when~he says [Ps. 147,11]: The Lord taketh pleasure
5 1 | Solomon also teaches Prov. 19, 17: He that~hath pity upon
6 5 | flesh (he says [chap. 5, 19ff.]) are manifest, which are
7 Pref | Christ promises, Matt. 18, 20: Where two or~three are
8 1 | Gospel of St. Matthew, 5, 21 ff.,~where Christ Himself
9 1 | St. Paul~says, 1 Cor. 12, 22: Much more, those members
10 Pref2| of St. Paul [1 Cor.~11, 23 f.].~OF THE SACRAMENT ~Our
11 1 | when He shall say, Matt.25, 42f.: I was an hungered,
12 3 | Christ teaches~[Matt. 6, 33]: Seek ye first the kingdom
13 3 | with this prayer, Luke 6, 37: Forgive, and ye~shall be
14 1 | when He shall say, Matt.25, 42f.: I was an hungered, and~
15 1 | as Christ says Matt. 5,~46. ~Here we have again the
16 Pref2| Thou shalt not steal. ~8. Thou shalt not bear false
17 Pref2| witness against thy neighbor. ~9. Thou shalt not covet thy
18 1 | by their monastic vows to abandon the unchaste state and enter~
19 1 | cease working],~or heiligen Abend geben [sanctify the Sabbath].
20 1 | but every child would have abided by this~commandment, and
21 2 | last day, the Holy Ghost abides with the holy congregation
22 1 | one another, and~afterward abjure [their plighted troth]. ~
23 5 | nonsense of the Pope has been abolished, and we are freed from his
24 1 | home in our own house and abroad with~our neighbors, to practice
25 1 | will), you can in a year~abscond thirty, forty florins, which
26 5 | desire to be godly, must not absent themselves, even~though
27 1 | too~closely, and grossly abused it, so that they traduced
28 2 | drowned in~blindness, and abuses all the good things and
29 2 | revealed~and opened the deepest abyss of his paternal heart and
30 4 | the rich no one could find access! But here in Baptism~there
31 3 | alongside of~the promise which accords with this prayer, Luke 6,
32 1 | modesty toward them, do not accost~them roughly, haughtily,
33 1 | where a poor innocent~man is accused and oppressed by false witnesses
34 1 | mortal sins, and~is called _achedia_, i.e., torpor or satiety,
35 1 | in order that it may be acknowledged as God's gift, and~thanks
36 3 | conscience and are entirely~acquitted, yet is our life of such
37 3 | believes God, and is ever active in~evil lusts and devices,
38 2 | what is the essence, will,~activity, and work of God the Father.
39 | actually
40 1 | requires not only that~they be addressed kindly and with reverence,
41 1 | punishment, and, besides, adds such glorious promises that
42 5 | though you would be godly and adhere~to the Gospel, and see whether
43 3 | may gain approbation and~adherence among other people and proceed
44 1 | deprived of it, and it is adjudicated to him,~and confirmed with
45 5 | intention to admit to it and~to administer it to those who know not
46 5 | as he who [receives or] administers it in the~most worthy manner.
47 1 | spiritual~jurisdiction or administration; here it is a common occurrence
48 5 | is not our intention to admit to it and~to administer
49 Pref2| with the Christians nor be admitted to any Sacrament, just as
50 1 | ourselves to be preached to and admonished, but we listen without~seriousness
51 5 | there is indeed need of some admonition and exhortation,~that men
52 1 | rascality, resort to and~invent adroit devices and deceitful artifices (
53 3 | and the people of God are adulterers, drunkards,~misers, envious,
54 2 | and those who are somewhat advanced [have~acquired some Scriptural
55 1 | for one always to explain advantageously and put the best~construction
56 1 | and struggling against adverse winds] or one fallen into
57 1 | take~refuge in Him, but in adversity flees from Him, then you
58 5 | your brother. Then take advice and have others pray~for
59 1 | who allows himself to be advised remember that God is not
60 1 | God is dragged into the affair and must make the villainy
61 3 | for all the~things which affect our bodily interests, so
62 3 | is sensible of anything~affecting his interests or that of
63 5 | creatures should fall, and affirm it is as~He says, and accept
64 3 | his anger whenever he can afflict~our bodies with misfortune
65 2 | above the temporal goods~aforementioned; namely, how He has completely
66 1 | themselves to one another, and~afterward abjure [their plighted troth]. ~
67 3 | attain to middle life and old age, from the world, but others
68 1 | histories, also in the memory of aged and experienced~people.
69 1 | great sin,~but is greatly aggravated when we attempt to justify
70 3 | directions, but~especially agitating matters that concern the
71 1 | insignificant, or had long ago~been perfectly fulfilled. ~
72 3 | and, in short, all the agonizing misery and~heartache of
73 1 | may have~a pleasant and agreeable life, furnished with every
74 2 | with manifold gifts, yet~agreeing in love, without sects or
75 1 | like a kind father steps in~ahead of Us, interposes and wishes
76 1 | desire or in any way to aim at getting our neighbor'
77 1 | it is also forbidden to~alienate anything from your neighbor,
78 1 | us that one~estranges or alienates another's man-servant or
79 1 | respects we are, indeed, all alike in~the eyes of God; but
80 1 | i.e., death [death the all-subduer, the teacher of~wicked children].
81 1 | be the one which Christ~alleges in the Gospel, in which
82 3 | and our own flesh as~his allies. For our flesh is in itself
83 3 | can escape temptation and allurements; and it cannot~be otherwise
84 5 | own sake. He invites and allures you; if you despise it,
85 | almost
86 1 | commandments, so that giving of~alms and every other good work
87 | along
88 3 | and assurance for a sign alongside of~the promise which accords
89 Pref | and begin to learn~their alphabet, which they imagine that
90 4 | indulgences and confirmed altars and churches, solely because~
91 5 | also can no one change or alter it, even though it be misused.
92 1 | not think~only how we may amass money and possessions for
93 1 | or even though they have amassed~great treasures, they have
94 1 | Therefore all their boasting amounts to as much as if I boasted
95 2 | children, but rather to the ampler sermons that extend~throughout
96 1 | children for our pleasure~or amusement, and servants that we should
97 5 | Baptism we are first born anew; but~(as we said before)
98 5 | saint upon earth, yea, no angel in~heaven, can make bread
99 1 | attain to them is a heavenly, angelic~man far above all holiness
100 1 | day, as Christ Himself~has announced when He shall say, Matt.
101 1 | treated,~because we hear it annually in the Gospel of St. Matthew,
102 4 | and use of Baptism,~for it answers the present purpose.~
103 3 | commandment and promise God anticipates us, and~Himself arranges
104 5 | use it only as a precious antidote~against the poison which
105 1 | subordinates. As~also from antiquity the Romans and other nations
106 | anyhow
107 3 | that what~must be done anyway without us, may also be
108 1 | they are called heretics, apostates, yea, seditious and~desperately
109 1 | that~God's name must not be appealed to falsely, or taken upon
110 1 | yea, [a fig image or] an apple-god, and elevating and regarding~
111 3 | the~same commandment which applied to St. Paul applies also
112 3 | which applied to St. Paul applies also to me; and the~Second
113 1 | and who knows not how to appoint anything better, I will
114 Pref | it is daily relished and~appreciated better, as Christ promises,
115 3 | therein, and that it may gain approbation and~adherence among other
116 1 | God (more elegantly and appropriately than any other~language)
117 1 | wish to have~excellent and apt persons both for civil and
118 1 | left to your pleasure and arbitrary will, but that~it is a strict
119 3 | but to pray against~this arch enemy without ceasing. For
120 1 | attack the great, powerful arch-thieves with whom lords and~princes
121 1 | and other shameful~vices arising from disregard of married
122 Pref | against them, as with a good armor~against their fiery darts
123 1 | do. Then, if any one be arraigned, the~name of God is dragged
124 1 | receive by His command or arrangement is all received from~God.
125 3 | anticipates us, and~Himself arranges the words and form of prayer
126 1 | practiced his defiance and arrogance, he shall yet~remain a tramp
127 3 | this very hour send such an arrow~into my heart that I can
128 5 | many knives, darts, and arrows~are every moment aimed at
129 1 | adroit devices and deceitful artifices (such as now are daily~most
130 2 | sufferings, resurrection, ascension of Christ, etc. ~Ay, the
131 1 | than all the sanctity~and ascetic life of monks? And you have
132 3 | you. For every one that~asketh receiveth. Such promises
133 3 | patience in whatever way we are assailed,~and to let go whatever
134 2 | simple do not understand an assembled multitude, but the~consecrated
135 2 | reason that the multitude~assembles there. For we who assemble
136 1 | that we~neither use nor assent to any kind of means or
137 4 | would-be wise, new spirits assert that faith alone saves,~
138 1 | and~tyrants; nor does He assign to them this honor, that
139 3 | Him and by their~prayers assuage His wrath and seek His grace. ~
140 1 | a~thing, but proceed to assume jurisdiction, and when they
141 2 | ascended into heaven and~assumed the government at the Father'
142 Pref | care for their paunches,~assuming no other relation to this
143 3 | moreover,~that it shall assuredly be heard and granted, in
144 4 | water if tearing things asunder is what we are after? But
145 Pref | against the daily~and unabated attacks and lurking of the devil,
146 1 | masses cannot give such attendance, there must be at~least
147 1 | maid-servants, who have been attending to their work~and trade
148 1 | stand before the proper authorities and~to make answer, then
149 4 | that whatever is not faith~avails nothing nor receives anything. ~
150 1 | calamity was immediately averted and removed during such
151 2 | all evil and misfortune, averts all sorts of danger and~
152 1 | alone, and from~such fear avoids everything that is contrary
153 1 | without fruit, but always awakens~new understanding, pleasure,
154 1 | shoemaker~uses his needle, awl, and thread for work, and
155 1 | guard, no one~dare even look awry at them or accuse them of
156 2 | ascension of Christ, etc. ~Ay, the entire Gospel which
157 4 | water to help the soul? Aye, my friend, who does not
158 1 | esteemed, as though~some babbler had spoken it, let us see
159 1 | hands or to put Him~in a bag [as money], or to lock Him
160 Pref | but be driven out, being baited with~dogs, and pelted with
161 3 | means reject prayer, but the bare, useless howling and murmuring
162 3 | prices in common trade, bargaining and labor on the part of
163 2 | been redeemed; and we shall base this on these words: In
164 1 | up another's displeasure [baseness], as~swine roll themselves
165 1 | the heart and taught [the~basis of] faith, so this commandment
166 5 | not to fall back in such a~battle, but become ever stronger
167 1 | rest, so~that both man and beast might recuperate, and not
168 4 | profits. This is again most beautifully and clearly~expressed in
169 | becoming
170 1 | an inn, and food, and his bed only for temporal~necessity,
171 1 | grain in the garner, your beer in the cellar, your cattle
172 1 | stores, booths, wine- and beer-cellars, workshops, and,~in short,
173 1 | live together, be fruitful, beget children, and nourish~and
174 2 | which~is the mother that begets and bears every Christian
175 1 | amend~before the punishment begins, they become mad and foolish
176 1 | In Christ Jesus I hove~begotten you through the Gospel.
177 1 | that must daily be hanged, beheaded, broken~upon the wheel,
178 3 | olden times used to call it)~Bekoerunge, is of three kinds, namely,
179 Pref2| Supper, and use~everything belonging to Christians, notwithstanding
180 2 | was entirely put under the bench, and no one~recognized Christ
181 1 | above all estates that are beneath it that He not simply~commands
182 4 | anything; but it becomes beneficial to you if you have yourself~
183 2 | without our merit, as a benevolent Father, who cares for us
184 1 | god; the others, who were bent~upon riches, happiness,
185 1 | God, and reckons how many~bequests it has made, how often it
186 Pref | as that about Dietrich of Berne, etc., but as~St. Paul says,
187 Pref | and for both desiring and beseeching others to teach it, since~
188 1 | the children be trained betimes~to shun falsehood, and especially
189 1 | encounter an idle tongue~which betrays and slanders some one, contradict
190 1 | where two go and secretly betroth themselves to one another,
191 3 | humble ourselves before Him, bewail~this misery and plight of
192 1 | plague with which the devil bewitches and deceives the hearts
193 Pref | Testament, or elsewhere in the~Bible, and pray the Lord's Prayer
194 3 | Dear Father, Thou hast bidden me pray; let me not relapse
195 5 | remembrance of Me. These are bidding and commanding~words by
196 5 | for on this account He bids me eat and drink, that it
197 1 | publicly by giving~her a bill of divorce, and to take
198 1 | taxation after another, or~billeting a troop of soldiers upon
199 4 | who~directs us thither and binds us to Baptism. ~In the third
200 2 | whatever it bears and produces,~birds and fishes, beasts, grain,
201 1 | technical points turning black into white and making~wrong
202 1 | manner, being persecuted blasphemed,~contradicted, perverted
203 4 | from the well, and then blather and say: How is a handful
204 1 | in turn, would rage and bleed and take~vengeance. Then
205 5 | could not find~the least blemish in us. On this account we
206 1 | should we adorn whatever blemishes and infirmities we~find
207 1 | reproach them as murderers and~bloodhounds? For although you have not
208 3 | cattle-plague, war and bloodshed, famine,~destructive beasts,
209 1 | following let their name be blotted~out. Therefore heed well
210 1 | He must deal a~smashing blow and punish them, so that
211 1 | continually.~Therefore all their boasting amounts to as much as if
212 1 | it [your perfidy] will bob up again and come home to
213 1 | can guard with locks and~bolts, or who, if apprehended,
214 1 | you skin and scrape to the bone, and, besides, with pride~
215 Pref | immediately know it, throw the book into a corner, and be ashamed,
216 1 | the~market, in all stores, booths, wine- and beer-cellars,
217 1 | or stolen, but honestly bought. Here they say: First come,
218 1 | and is even defiant and~brags as though it were his fair
219 1 | also a wise, modest, yea, a brave and bold man; likewise,
220 3 | heart, and~suffer such a breach to be made in his kingdom.
221 3 | now, we consider the poor breadbasket, the necessaries of our~
222 3 | should serve God's purpose of breaking our pride and keeping~us
223 1 | as He gives to~the mother breasts and milk to offer to her
224 1 | not develop into a good breed and at best they will remain
225 1 | stratagem takes away~a rich bride from another. But it is
226 1 | Thus, to state it in the briefest manner, there is required
227 5 | lantern in contrast with the bright sun, or as~filth in comparison
228 1 | work of hypocrisy, however brilliant.~~
229 1 | before God, no matter how brilliantly it may~shine! even though
230 2 | article is~very rich and broad; but in order to expound
231 1 | that would be acting quite brotherly, so that the evil would
232 1 | yourself to chance, as men of brutal~heart, who think that it
233 5 | far that they become quite brutish, and finally despise both
234 3 | that there be those who build and govern well, but also
235 2 | the~consecrated house or building, although the house ought
236 1 | expense, and magnificent~buildings with which they adorn them,
237 4 | Pope with his letters and bulls~dispensed indulgences and
238 5 | the heart feels that the burden is becoming too heavy, that
239 Pref | from the unprofitable and burdensome~babbling of the Seven Canonical
240 1 | it is that where judges, burgomasters, princes,~or others in authority
241 1 | addition, by way of thanks, burn and devastate house and~
242 1 | they can, and we learn to calm our wrath, and to~have a
243 1 | bells, they light~tapers and candles, so that nothing else can
244 Pref | burdensome~babbling of the Seven Canonical Hours, oh, that, instead
245 1 | thus the children~could captivate their parents' hearts. On
246 2 | no Lord nor King, but was captive under the~power of the devil,
247 Pref | swineherds and dog-tenders than care-takers~of souls and pastors. ~And
248 1 | Gospel read;~but no one cared for God's Word, as also
249 1 | the tongue, which is to be carefully observed against~this detestable
250 Pref | lazy, pernicious,~shameful, carnal liberty! For, alas! as it
251 1 | another had taken secretly or~carried away, he would be hanged
252 2 | finished. But the~Holy Ghost carries on His work without ceasing
253 1 | open free market into~a carrion-pit of extortion and a den of
254 1 | who snatch away the~ready cash, but who sit on the chair [
255 3 | understand that He will not cast us~from Him nor chase us
256 1 | any one desire to~have a castle, city, duchy, or any other
257 1 | desire. He who despises and casts this to the winds is not~
258 3 | flood, poison, pestilence, cattle-plague, war and bloodshed, famine,~
259 2 | promotes sanctification, causing it [this community] daily
260 1 | rascality, but shrewdness and caution. In~this lawyers and jurists
261 3 | Gospel; therefore it~is ceaselessly necessary that we run hither
262 1 | how often it has fasted, celebrated Mass, etc.~Upon such things
263 1 | garner, your beer in the cellar, your cattle in the stalls~
264 3 | his kingdom. Therefore he chafes and~rages as a fierce enemy
265 4 | commandment (I say) is~the chain of gold about his neck,
266 1 | security and commit yourself to chance, as men of brutal~heart,
267 5 | suffer His ordinance to be~changed? Why, in all worldly matters
268 1 | and the true fountain and channel from and in which everything
269 1 | creatures are only the~hands, channels, and means whereby God gives
270 5 | works~of the flesh (he says [chap. 5, 19ff.]) are manifest,
271 1 | good~name, and upright character of our neighbor to be taken
272 1 | among the Romans, where such characters were promptly~seized by
273 1 | speak of the evil, to prefer charges, to investigate~and testify;
274 3 | not cast us~from Him nor chase us away, although we are
275 1 | not called stealing and cheating, yet it is called coveting
276 1 | right and regular course for checking~and reforming a wicked person.
277 1 | be found who are of good cheer, and who neither mourn~nor
278 3 | will, our daily bread, a cheerful good conscience, etc. ~Therefore
279 1 | and ready to serve, and~cheerfully does all that pertains to
280 1 | and harmony, that one may cherish the other from~the heart
281 1 | money], or to lock Him in a chest [as silver vessels]. But~
282 2 | assemble there make and choose for~ourselves a particular
283 1 | he was afraid of fire, he~chose St. Lawrence as his helper
284 2 | Christendom (eine heilige Christenheit). ~So also the word communio,
285 2 | congregation or assembly (eine~christliche Gemeinde oder Sammlung),
286 1 | contradicted, perverted and falsely cited and interpreted. But let
287 1 | as especially the Jews claimed to be, and even~now many
288 1 | making a pretty show, or claiming to be right, whether~it
289 3 | because He is God, He also claims the honor of~giving much
290 4 | is~now so full of sects clamoring that Baptism is an external
291 1 | forbidding good~works and clearing the convents. For in this
292 Pref2| 16, 15 f.] record at the close of their Gospels~when Christ
293 1 | have his eyes and ears closed, neither see nor~hear, but
294 1 | person nearest him,~or the closest possession next after his
295 Pref | everything (for imagination and cloth unshrunk [and false weights]
296 1 | is naked when~you could clothe him, you have caused him
297 1 | wreath and put on our best~clothes, but (as has been said)
298 1 | fear God more than rods and clubs. This I say with such~simplicity
299 4 | regarded according to~the coarse, external mask, as we regard
300 4 | like putting on a new red coat. For it is of the~greatest
301 3 | very proper to place in the coat-of-arms of~every pious prince a
302 1 | were derived from the law~codes; yea, we even dare impertinently
303 5 | You must not suffer men to coerce you~unto faith or any good
304 5 | one should by any means be~coerced or compelled, lest we institute
305 5 | freed from his laws~and coercion, go one, two, three years,
306 1 | to~empty our neighbor's coffer and pockets, but to be grasping
307 1 | who in one hour empty our~coffers and purses, and do not quit
308 1 | false measures, weights, coins,~and by nimbleness and queer
309 3 | truly, and not go about coldly and indifferently, whereby~
310 4 | teach thus: Even though we collect~in one mass the works of
311 1 | although the whole world should combine,~it could not add an hour
312 1 | parts have more abundant comeliness. No one covers his~face,
313 4 | heretics and sects we will~commend to the learned. ~In the
314 1 | such care and diligence] commended, but had~to be neglected
315 1 | form the habit of daily~commending ourselves to God, with soul
316 1 | all manner of trade and commerce, lest the poor be burdened~
317 3 | daily in word and deed, by~commission and omission by which the
318 1 | To sum up, this is the~commonest craft and the largest guild
319 1 | suffers want, that we help, communicate,~and lend both to friends
320 2 | Christenheit). ~So also the word communio, which is added, ought not
321 2 | the holy Christian Church, communionem~sanctorum, a communion of
322 1 | whom lords and~princes keep company, who daily plunder not only
323 2 | unfathomable goodness had compassion upon our~misery and wretchedness,
324 1 | that we are~to be richly compensated for all that we do for our
325 1 | sufficient gratitude and compensation. He~that regards and considers
326 1 | Therefore, as every one complains, the~course of the world
327 1 | title that no one can make~complaint or lay claim thereto. In
328 1 | shalt not kill.~~We have now completed both the spiritual and the
329 3 | other prayers that~we might compose ourselves. For in them the
330 Pref2| or hymns, which have~been composed on these parts, and thus
331 3 | set upon the table. ~To comprise it briefly, this petition
332 4 | virtue and power of God comprised in it]. Hence also it derives
333 5 | are, and labor to have no~compunctions, you must never approach. ~
334 2 | But if the work remained concealed so that no one knew of it,
335 1 | they are not peculiar and conceited works~and restricted to
336 2 | is readily inferred and concluded that it is our duty~to love,
337 5 | yourself.~Yea, St. Paul further concludes in Rom. 7, 18: l know that
338 1 | joy, love, friendship, and concord in their houses; thus the
339 1 | own person to judge and condemn anybody, yet if they~to
340 1 | the blind world that she condemns and~persecutes the truth
341 1 | evil), or at any rate to condone it over and against the~
342 1 | That is: It shall not be condoned to any one~nor pass unpunished.
343 1 | this life, he delegates and confers his authority and~government
344 2 | therefore also three articles or confessions. Let us briefly run over~
345 3 | may~set this up for our confirmation and assurance for a sign
346 1 | pestilences wars,~famines, conflagrations, floods, wayward wives,
347 3 | firm in~such a persistent conflict. ~Therefore there is here
348 1 | given him by God. For where~conjugal chastity is to be maintained,
349 1 | so, or to curse, swear,~conjure, and, in short, to practice
350 3 | men, by swearing, cursing, conjuring, etc.,~grossly abuse the
351 1 | could make resistance, or connive at it as if it did~not concern
352 1 | who imagine because~God connives and allows them to rest
353 3 | finally~acknowledge themselves conquered. Else if you venture to
354 1 | rope. But here you [while~conscious of such a great theft] may
355 3 | far different thing from consenting~or yielding to it. We must
356 1 | first and most important consideration~to urge us to the observance
357 1 | enter~the married life, considering that even if the monastic
358 1 | truth and God's Word and~consign it to the devil. Of this
359 1 | divine name, which should consist not only in words, but~also
360 5 | was instantly thrown into consternation and said to himself: Alas!~
361 5 | like to~see those who will constitute themselves His masters,
362 Pref | should feel sufficiently constrained by the command of~God alone,
363 1 | advantageously and put the best~construction upon all he may hear of
364 1 | we set up, without once [consulting or] giving reverence to
365 Pref | to do but to~[spend and] consume their emoluments as long
366 1 | your entire pile shall be consumed with rust,~so that you shall
367 1 | also have their promises contained in them, yet~in none is
368 1 | whenever it is seriously contemplated heard, and~used, that it
369 3 | There he causes so much contention, murder, sedition, and war
370 1 | evil lusts that there is a continual~burning and secret suffering,
371 2 | where there is nothing but [continuous,~uninterrupted] forgiveness
372 5 | But here our wise spirits contort themselves with their great
373 1 | betrays and slanders some one, contradict such a one promptly to~his
374 1 | being persecuted blasphemed,~contradicted, perverted and falsely cited
375 1 | rigorously on~those who act contrariwise. ~All this I say that it
376 5 | appears like a dark lantern in contrast with the bright sun, or
377 1 | are daily~most ingeniously contrived) as though they were derived
378 1 | altogether~dissolute and beyond control, have no reverence nor sense
379 1 | is comprehended in, and controlled by, the jewel and~sanctuary,
380 5 | do not wish to enter into controversy and contend with the~traducers
381 3 | intercourse in daily business and conversation and all sorts~of doings,
382 5 | only way in which it is~conveyed and appropriated to us is
383 1 | with you by whom you can~convict the guilty one, relying
384 4 | that with which the servant~cooks, and may indeed be called
385 3 | we are far too feeble to cope with the devil~and all his
386 1 | offers and presents~such cordial inducements and such rich
387 5 | sin and a shame that He so cordially and faithfully~summons and
388 1 | offer to her child, and corn and all~manner of produce
389 Pref2| been~taught and treated correctly until both young and old
390 3 | of our country and to all counselors,~magistrates, and officers,
391 1 | Sebastian or Rochio, and a countless number of such~abominations,
392 1 | would have eyes and the courage to establish and maintain~
393 1 | most gross, and who~make a covenant with the devil, in order
394 1 | shine! even though it be covered with relics, such as the
395 3 | that our~body have food and covering and other necessaries, but
396 1 | abundant comeliness. No one covers his~face, eyes, nose, and
397 1 | cheating, yet it is called coveting your~neighbor's property,
398 1 | should employ them like a cow or~ass, only for work, or
399 1 | up, this is the~commonest craft and the largest guild on
400 Pref | plenty, just as it becomes crazy Germans to do.~For we Germans
401 2 | there is no Holy Ghost who creates, calls, and~gathers the
402 1 | inoperative or dead, but~creative, living words. And even
403 1 | misfortune and distress, creep and cling to Me. I, yes,
404 1 | than as a murderer and a criminal? ~Therefore it is God's
405 1 | which service you fill your crop and maw, take your wages~
406 1 | addition are favored and crowned with excellent blessings,
407 3 | that we pray here not for a crust of bread or a~temporal,
408 1 | whoever is the most expert and cunning in these affairs finds most
409 2 | as in Latin it~is called curia. Therefore in genuine German,
410 1 | But see, is not that a cursed presumption of those desperate
411 1 | although he does not kill, yet curses~and utters a wish, which
412 1 | shall~subtract from, or curtail, his neighbor's possessions.
413 1 | whatever manner supposable, by curtailing,~forestalling, and withholding
414 1 | 13: Let his posterity~be cut off; and in the generation
415 1 | or satiety, a malignant, dangerous~plague with which the devil
416 3 | grievous, indeed, are these dangers and temptations which~every
417 1 | fidelity, no~faith, but only daring, unbridled men, whom no
418 5 | and then~it appears like a dark lantern in contrast with
419 3 | which they shall run and dash themselves to pieces.~This
420 1 | Here consider now what deadly injury you~are doing if
421 1 | master, another comes and deals~in like manner with you,
422 1 | esteem them great as the dearest treasure and the~most precious
423 1 | on account of distress or debt,~cannot regain or redeem
424 1 | must serve us and were our~debtor, and we His liege lords.
425 Pref | content to let the~parishes decay and become desolate, and
426 1 | support of~falsehood and deceit. Let4this remain the exact
427 1 | the devil bewitches and deceives the hearts of many,~that
428 1 | vain for cursing, lying, deceiving, and other~modes of leading
429 1 | carry them through with~his decision will often offend good friends,
430 1 | rough~[external] work, or deck ourselves with a wreath
431 1 | Word. Behold, all this is decking one's self out with~God'
432 1 | Therefore you must let this declaration run through all the~commandments,
433 1 | throne, and let his heart decline from God, and put~his trust
434 2 | revealed~and opened the deepest abyss of his paternal heart
435 1 | which we are steeped so deeply, and may truly understand
436 1 | good, prevent, resist evil,~defend and save him, so that no
437 4 | is to be maintained and defended against heretics and sects
438 1 | also modesty, humility,~and deference as to a majesty there hidden,
439 1 | punishment, ad though it be deferred a long time, he shall not~
440 1 | servants, and~all sorts of defilement. Whence else should so much
441 1 | taken away. For God has delegated~His authority to punish
442 1 | he~departs this life, he delegates and confers his authority
443 3 | attempt their~utmost, and deliberate and resolve how they may
444 5 | without any one's~counsel and deliberation it has been instituted by
445 Pref | to remain. And yet these delicate, fastidious fellows would~
446 1 | into every corner, and are delighted and~tickled that they can
447 1 | and if any evil befall~us, delivers and rescues us, so that
448 1 | world, which, like a great deluge, has flooded all lands.
449 3 | duty always to~deport and demean ourselves as godly children,
450 1 | be~desisted. ~He has also demonstrated this in all history, as
451 1 | carrion-pit of extortion and a den of robbery, where the poor
452 3 | other hand,~to despair, denial of God, blasphemy, and innumerable
453 2 | over them also. ~The Creed denominates the holy Christian Church,
454 1 | cause must be~oppressed, denounced as wrong, and suffer punishment.
455 1 | saying of old and wise men: Deo, parentibus et magistris~
456 1 | friends and neighbors; if he~departs this life, he delegates
457 3 | now they may~confidently deride it and make a mock of it,
458 4 | comprised in it]. Hence also it derives its~essence as a Sacrament,
459 2 | we praise or portray and describe Him, that He may be known?
460 1 | commandment who grossly~misuse and desecrate the holy day, as those who
461 3 | sort of wrong profanes and desecrates this holy name, as aforetime~
462 1 | and filth, and besides, deserves nothing but~wrath and damnation.~~
463 Pref2| LUTHER. ~~This sermon is designed and undertaken that it might
464 1 | be feared, and not to be~desisted. ~He has also demonstrated
465 3 | he is an enemy that never~desists nor becomes tired, so that
466 Pref | parishes decay and become desolate, and pastors and preachers
467 3 | or, on the other hand,~to despair, denial of God, blasphemy,
468 1 | cursed presumption of those desperate saints who~dare to invent
469 1 | apostates, yea, seditious and~desperately wicked miscreants. Besides
470 5 | despise it. For that I call despising it if one allow so long
471 4 | and medicine~as utterly destroys death and preserves all
472 3 | war and bloodshed, famine,~destructive beasts, wicked men, etc.
473 4 | salvation by them. For it is determined that whatever is not faith~
474 5 | themselves to be prevented and deterred by~the pretense that we
475 5 | exercise, and drives and deters~therefrom as much as he
476 1 | monks; it~would greatly detract from the religious estate,
477 5 | undisturbed, so that~nothing is detracted or taken from it, even though
478 1 | perpetrate what~wrong and detraction they can behind each other'
479 Pref | who solemnly enjoins in Deut. 6, 6 ff. that we should
480 1 | way of thanks, burn and devastate house and~home, and outrage
481 1 | the world would~soon be devastated and there would be a lack
482 1 | and blows only will~not develop into a good breed and at
483 1 | with works of their own device, and, in addition, have
484 1 | serves them right for their devilish perversion in~treading God'
485 1 | than~everything that we may devise ourselves, and since there
486 4 | that Baptism is~divine, not devised nor invented by men. For
487 1 | times have leisure, we must devote~several hours a week for
488 3 | to attain to the proper devotion. But the distress which
489 2 | the dead,~swallowed up and devoured death, and finally ascended
490 1 | nimbleness and queer finances or dexterous tricks takes~advantage of
491 1 | in common trade where one dexterously slips something out~of another'
492 1 | you good is not human, but diabolical. ~Secondly, under this commandment
493 1 | others; women with child, Diana or Lucina, and so on;~thus
494 Pref | silly prattle, as that about Dietrich of Berne, etc., but as~St.
495 1 | good [every faithful and~diligent service], who defraud me
496 1 | neighbor to be taken away or~diminished as little as his money and
497 4 | speaks, yea, in whichever direction or by~whatever means He
498 3 | inciting and provoking in all directions, but~especially agitating
499 1 | this commandment is aimed directly at the state of matrimony~
500 1 | swine roll themselves in the dirt and root in it with the
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