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501 4 | And this also we~cannot discern better than from the words
502 5 | faith of the heart, which discerns~this treasure and desires
503 1 | earnestly and faithfully~discharge their office, not only to
504 1 | wherever they can pry out and discover~something to blame in a
505 1 | prevent whatever may~be discreditable to him. And it is especially
506 3 | to be exposed, and~to be disgraced himself, and, besides, be
507 Pref | For we Germans have such disgraceful people, and must endure
508 5 | may not become~weary and disgusted, since we know and feel
509 3 | fool would beg only for a dish of gruel, he~would be rightly
510 1 | eyes, that no stolen or dishonestly acquired possession thrives.
511 3 | a person who most highly dishonors Him and~reproaches Him with
512 1 | help, when a proprietor dismisses his~man-servant or maid-servant,
513 1 | order, and no one create disorder by unnecessary innovation. ~
514 1 | of the filthy, dissolute, disorderly doings which~now run riot
515 1 | treasures, they have been dispersed and scattered, so that the~
516 1 | be despised~nor held in disrepute, as is done by the blind
517 3 | government. For where there are dissension, strife, and war,~there
518 2 | forgiveness of sin. But in our~dissolution He will accomplish it altogether
519 3 | the flour-bin but to the distant field and the entire~land,
520 5 | greatest good, and we act so~distantly with regard to it, and permit
521 2 | to the Creed were to be distinctly set forth, there~would be
522 1 | hard bargain, skins and distresses him. And who~can recount
523 1 | together~with their many great, distressing, and difficult works and
524 5 | is daily administered~and distributed among Christians pass by
525 5 | though a knave takes or distributes the Sacrament, he~receives
526 3 | hindered [intercepted and disturbed] that they do not prosper
527 2 | of the Creed, therefore, divide and separate us~Christians
528 1 | by giving~her a bill of divorce, and to take another. Therefore
529 1 | married are forbidden to be divorced,~except in such a case where
530 Pref | I say this: I am also a doctor and preacher, yea, as~learned
531 Pref | properly swineherds and dog-tenders than care-takers~of souls
532 2 | and~displeasure and were doomed to eternal damnation, as
533 Pref | Sermones per se loquentes,~Dormi secure, Paratos et Thesauros,
534 Pref | constant~mark and sign. Doubtless He did not so solemnly require
535 1 | other hand, he~who has none doubts and is despondent, as though
536 1 | arraigned, the~name of God is dragged into the affair and must
537 1 | devil, and, in~addition, to drain our sweat and blood. ~But
538 3 | we should be incited and drawn to prayer because in~addition
539 1 | we may guard against and dread~every misuse of the holy
540 1 | his helper in need; if he dreaded pestilence, he~made a vow
541 1 | self-invented notions and dreams of God an idol, and put
542 1 | shameful mess and the very dregs~of all vice and lewdness,
543 5 | who from~caprice eats and drinks what is forbidden him by
544 3 | heart prayed for even a drop of~wine. For none of them
545 3 | drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites~many to
546 1 | in taverns and are~dead drunk like swine; but also that
547 3 | people of God are adulterers, drunkards,~misers, envious, and slanderers.
548 1 | green gallows, but upon a dry one so~that all their life
549 1 | to~have a castle, city, duchy, or any other great thing,
550 1 | two, find it tedious and dull, thinking that~they know
551 Pref | with~dogs, and pelted with dung, because we not only need
552 5 | me, that~is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. If St. Paul
553 4 | the~art of saving men from dying, or, even though they died,
554 1 | Here belong those also, as,~e.g., sorcerers and magicians,
555 3 | continually resort to the ear of God, call upon Him, and
556 1 | Therefore also the young were~early provided for [married],
557 1 | gift, but desires itself to earn or~merit it superabundantly,
558 1 | all sin~and wrath, thus earning hell by your own children,
559 1 | pleasure, and a life of ease, Hercules,~Mercury, Venus
560 5 | if it were a poison, the eating of which would bring~death? ~
561 1 | father is unable alone to educate his [rebellious~and irritable]
562 1 | improved and likewise well~educated citizens, chaste and domestic
563 1 | or cost in teaching and educating our~children, that they
564 1 | and~trained in a liberal education, that men may be able to
565 3 | place that this may become~effective with us, and that His name
566 1 | The Eighth Commandment. Thou shalt
567 5 | allow so long a time to~elapse and with nothing to hinder
568 1 | they are arranged in fine [elegant] order. In the first place,
569 1 | ancient~times call God (more elegantly and appropriately than any
570 1 | trust in power and~dominion elevated Jupiter as the supreme god;
571 1 | image or] an apple-god, and elevating and regarding~ourselves
572 1 | which is sure~to take an ell in addition wherever you
573 1 | source by which the heart is embittered against our neighbor,~and
574 1 | stands there in a surplice embroidered with gilt, or a layman~continues
575 Pref | spend and] consume their emoluments as long as they live, as
576 3 | Likewise, that He give to emperors, kings, and all estates,
577 2 | to the Creation: that~we emphasize the words: Creator of heaven
578 1 | Therefore also St. Paul greatly emphasizes the same and rejoices in
579 3 | and never rests a~moment, employing all arts, wiles, ways, and
580 5 | witchcraft,~hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
581 4 | which God has connected and enclosed it, and which He~will not
582 1 | violence, nor in~any wise encroach upon him as touching his
583 2 | world with all diligence~has endeavored to ascertain what God is,
584 3 | our own flesh,~resists our endeavors, nothing is so necessary
585 1 | which we ought to run to the ends of the world [to the~remotest
586 1 | it so richly, and besides enforces punishment so rigorously
587 3 | must endure trials, yea, be engulfed in them;~but we pray for
588 Pref | so solemnly require and enjoin this~without a purpose;
589 1 | the principal~points which enkindle love and desire of chastity,
590 5 | the~heart be warmed and enkindled, that it may not become
591 2 | which] He illumines~and enkindles hearts, that they understand,
592 2 | devil, condemned to death, enmeshed in sin and blindness. ~For
593 3 | nothing but hatred and~envy, enmity, violence and wrong, unfaithfulness,
594 1 | command is given, to all poor ensnared consciences which have been~
595 2 | which is the beginning of~entering it. For formerly, before
596 3 | it, as~bishops, tyrants, enthusiasts, etc. Likewise also for
597 1 | man-servant or maid-servant, or~entices them away by flattering
598 1 | aiming at possession of it, enticing it~away from him without
599 1 | they are fathers they are~entitled to their honor, even above
600 3 | world, that many may find entrance into the Kingdom of Grace,
601 1 | ruins~and neglects the goods entrusted to him, from indolence idleness,
602 1 | God than he, he is sulky, envies you, and speaks no good
603 3 | adulterers, drunkards,~misers, envious, and slanderers. Here again
604 5 | strife, seditions, heresies,~envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings,
605 1 | rejoices in it~when he says, Eph. 6, 2. 3: This is the first
606 5 | your good, to St. Paul's Epistle to the~Galatians, and hear
607 Pref | which is a Short Summary and Epitome of the Entire~Holy Scriptures,
608 1 | is not only placed on an~equality with other estates, but
609 Pref | devils, He wishes~to warn, equip, and preserve us against
610 1 | subterfuge,~irrespective of equity or their neighbor's necessity.
611 2 | custom~that it cannot well be eradicated, and it is treated almost
612 1 | it~consists not merely in erecting an image and worshiping
613 1 | trust and~believe. But their error is this that their trust
614 5 | and defense against all errors and~deception that have
615 Pref | Catechism daily, doing than~esteeming themselves much more learned
616 4 | Here, then, we~must not estimate the person according to
617 1 | dismiss his own wife and to~estrange the other's wife from him,
618 1 | rare thing with us that one~estranges or alienates another's man-servant
619 1 | and peace, and shall~be eternally rich and blessed. Therefore
620 3 | faith; and secondly, in eternity forever~through revelation.
621 1 | customs, but are~common, every-day domestic works which one
622 | everyone
623 1 | manifest upon sufficient evidence no one shall~make public
624 1 | His authority to punish evil-doers to the government instead
625 1 | outside of court by lying and evil-speaking. Here belongs~particularly
626 1 | deceit. Let4this remain the exact German and simplest~meaning
627 1 | continue~practicing their exactions as long as they can; but
628 1 | God wishes to give you all exceeding abundantly according to~
629 Pref | them. ~Besides, it is an exceedingly effectual help against the
630 1 | this estate; yet with some exceptions~(although few) whom God
631 3 | not~by such disobedience excite His anger still more. For
632 1 | natural inclination and excitement have their~course without
633 3 | must know again that he~excites God to anger as a person
634 1 | is seen or heard, and to exclaim: "Lord God, protect us!"~"
635 4 | Therefore they do us violence by exclaiming against us as though we~
636 4 | for salvation,~and do not exclude, but demand, faith; for
637 4 | effects this much that it excludes and repels all~works which
638 1 | commandments are given quite exclusively to the Jews;~nevertheless,
639 1 | would be a lack both of executioners and~gallows. For, as we
640 3 | Adam about~our neck, who exerts himself and incites us daily
641 1 | and me a~liar. ~We have exhorted, warned, and protested enough;
642 1 | despondent when they no longer exist or are~withdrawn. Therefore
643 2 | three articles may all be~expanded and divided into as many
644 2 | could say much if we were to expatiate, how few there are that~
645 1 | everything which they know is expected of them, not from~compulsion
646 1 | effect by the great display, expense, and magnificent~buildings
647 1 | believes that whatever good it experiences comes from~God. ~Besides,
648 1 | short,~whoever is the most expert and cunning in these affairs
649 3 | of the divine name, to be exposed, and~to be disgraced himself,
650 1 | Exposition of the Appendix to the First
651 2 | and broad; but in order to expound it also briefly and in a~
652 2 | end than to explain and express this~redemption, how and
653 1 | neighbor, and therefore He expresses it in plain words: Thou
654 2 | communion of saints; for both expressions, taken~together, are identical.
655 2 | and work~depicted most exquisitely in quite short and yet rich
656 1 | do both~greater and more extensive good or harm in spiritual
657 1 | beginning He has utterly extirpated all idolatry, and, on account
658 4 | no one can sufficiently extol, for it has,~and is able
659 1 | Commandments are to be~exalted and extolled above all estates, commandments,
660 1 | gloriously God honors and extols this estate, inasmuch~as
661 1 | market into~a carrion-pit of extortion and a den of robbery, where
662 Pref | and we accomplish nothing~extraordinary even though we use all diligence.
663 1 | also a false worship and extreme idolatry, which we~have
664 1 | which he would not~easily extricate himself. For honor and a
665 1 | of their conduct or their failings. Therefore we are not to
666 1 | But, alas! here is the failure, that the world believes
667 1 | mad and foolish so as to~fairly merit wrath, as now we see
668 3 | superfluous finery,~honor, fame, and power, where no one
669 Pref2| well trained in them and familiar with~them. These are the
670 1 | there are honorable, old families who fare well and have many~
671 1 | deserve: pestilences wars,~famines, conflagrations, floods,
672 5 | prating of nearly all the fanatical~spirits can be repelled.
673 5 | devils, together with all fanatics, should rush~forward, crying,
674 1 | other that if one took a fancy to another's~wife, he might
675 3 | this he incites against us, fans and~stirs the fire, that
676 1 | since this commandment is so far-reaching [and comprehensive], as~
677 Pref2| Gospels~when Christ said farewell to His disciples and sent
678 1 | of fatherhood and extends~farthest of all relations. For here
679 1 | shall deal after the same fashion with~him. For God is master
680 1 | children were accustomed to fast and pray to St. Nicholas
681 1 | that beginning and end~are fastened and bound to each other. ~
682 1 | formerly they filled ten fat paunches. In~this we also
683 1 | exterminated. Therefore He is to be feared, and not to be~desisted. ~
684 1 | this is disregarded, God so~fearfully punishes the world that
685 1 | be a witness requires a fearless and especially a godly man.
686 5 | and again made a Jewish~feast of it. ~Thus, you perceive,
687 1 | moreover, that he has been fed and reared when otherwise
688 1 | though it is the least and feeblest member.~~
689 3 | from the~devil. But such feeling, as long as it is against
690 1 | we are accustomed to say, Feierbend machen [that is, to cease
691 1 | holy.]~~The word holy day (Feiertag) is rendered from the Hebrew
692 2 | and all evil, so that we fell under His wrath and~displeasure
693 1 | with the tongue against a fellow-man God~would have prohibited,
694 2 | daily brings us into the fellowship of this~Christian Church,
695 1 | chased, so that he~nowhere felt secure of his life; yet
696 1 | a~larger family and more fertile fields], greater possessions
697 2 | Christendom, by means of which He fetches us to Christ and which He~
698 1 | with relics, such as the fictitious~spiritual orders which know
699 1 | family and more fertile fields], greater possessions and
700 3 | growl day and night like fiends; but none of them think
701 3 | he chafes and~rages as a fierce enemy with all his power
702 1 | God to an~idol, yea, [a fig image or] an apple-god,
703 3 | upon~us on every side, and fights (as we have heard) against
704 1 | mistress, for which service you fill your crop and maw, take
705 1 | preacher, where formerly they filled ten fat paunches. In~this
706 1 | there might be less of the filthy, dissolute, disorderly doings
707 1 | by nimbleness and queer finances or dexterous tricks takes~
708 1 | thing, he practices so~much financiering through relationships, and
709 1 | But~they are arranged in fine [elegant] order. In the
710 1 | to adorn ourselves most finely and conceal our rascality,
711 3 | haughtiness, with superfluous finery,~honor, fame, and power,
712 Pref | learning this, are we not the finest of all fellows to imagine,
713 2 | sun, moon and stars in the firmament, day and~night, air, fire,
714 1 | boasts of them with such firmness~and assurance as to care
715 2 | and produces,~birds and fishes, beasts, grain, and all
716 1 | to whom it would be more fitting for~judges, jailers, or
717 Pref2| ye would have, in all, five parts of the entire Christian~
718 1 | like to offend~anybody, flatter, and speak to gain favor,
719 1 | or~entices them away by flattering words. ~In whatever way
720 5 | from which we had better flee but as a~pure wholesome,
721 2 | we~Germans hear the word Fleisch (flesh), we think no farther
722 2 | the term Auferstehung des Fleisches (resurrection of the flesh)~
723 1 | thereby~the devil is put to flight and driven away, and, besides,
724 3 | as lightning, hail, fire,~flood, poison, pestilence, cattle-plague,
725 1 | like a great deluge, has flooded all lands. Hence we~have
726 1 | famines, conflagrations, floods, wayward wives, children,
727 3 | only~to the oven or the flour-bin but to the distant field
728 Pref2| instruction for~children well and fluently and diligently exercise
729 1 | neighbor, whether friend or foe, nor speak evil of him,
730 1 | lend both to friends and foes. ~Whoever now seeks and
731 1 | this manner,~that [with folded hands] we sit behind the
732 Pref | Oh, what mad, senseless fools are we that, while we must
733 1 | and everybody's refuse and footrag. ~Yet there is need that
734 1 | would even be regarded as forbidding good~works and clearing
735 1 | us all, this commandment forbids all~sins of the tongue whereby
736 5 | from~compulsion, as being forced by men, but in obedience
737 1 | everybody thinks he knew them a fore; therefore men~pass them
738 1 | supposable, by curtailing,~forestalling, and withholding his possessions
739 3 | not on account of your forgiving, -- for~God forgives freely
740 1 | continually repeated and not~forgotten; as, namely, in the Second
741 5 | which are these:~Adultery fornication uncleanness, lasciviousness,
742 1 | moreover~renounces and forsakes everything that is not God,
743 Pref2| as a supplement and~to fortify them. lay before them also
744 1 | commandment placed~as a wall, fortress, and refuge about our neighbor,
745 | forty
746 1 | endured while nourishing and fostering him], except the~Holy Ghost
747 1 | is~the chief source and fountainhead which flows into all the
748 5 | and that just upon the fourteenth~day of the first full moon
749 1 | that however lowly, poor,~frail, and queer they may be,
750 3 | habit of never praying, and frame a pretext, as though we~
751 1 | considered as acquired by~fraud or stolen, but honestly
752 5 | been abolished, and we are freed from his laws~and coercion,
753 1 | get no other opportunity) freedom and time be taken to attend
754 3 | forgiving, -- for~God forgives freely and without condition, out
755 1 | you have caused him to freeze to death; you see~one suffer
756 1 | Now, this occurs most frequently in cases that are brought
757 3 | always arise others and fresh ones. ~Accordingly, there
758 5 | himself, and allow no one to frighten him away, but say: I, indeed,~
759 1 | account of their~greed or frivolity neglect to hear God's Word
760 Pref | thousand arts. And shall we~frivolously despise such power, profit,
761 Pref2| to know more and have a fuller understanding~of all Christian
762 Pref | stronger incense or other~fumigation against the devil than by
763 1 | their government perform the functions of a~father, and should
764 1 | pleasant and agreeable life, furnished with every good thing.~Therefore
765 3 | that~even against their fury His will be done without
766 5 | St. Paul's Epistle to the~Galatians, and hear what sort of a
767 1 | to heart, and meanwhile gaped [like a panting wolf] at
768 1 | gains that your~grain in the garner, your beer in the cellar,
769 1 | excuse them, palliate and garnish them with his own~reputation.
770 1 | richer! And though they gather much, they must suffer so
771 Pref | Where two or~three are gathered together in My name, there
772 2 | who creates, calls, and~gathers the Christian Church, without
773 1 | working],~or heiligen Abend geben [sanctify the Sabbath].
774 1 | and to~have a patient, gentle heart, especially toward
775 1 | now many great noblemen, gentlemen, and princes. For the other
776 1 | noble and sublime works, as gentleness patience, and, in~short,
777 2 | called curia. Therefore in genuine German, in our mother-tongue,
778 1 | hand, heart, mouth, signs, gestures, help, nor~counsel. Therefore
779 1 | or in any way to aim at getting our neighbor's~wife or possessions;
780 1 | surplice embroidered with gilt, or a layman~continues all
781 1 | praise. But when a poor~girl tends a little child and
782 1 | which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee. ~Here you can see
783 1 | with false holiness and the~glamour of our own works. ~Therefore
784 1 | that everything shines and~glitters. There they waft incense,
785 2 | in a~new, immortal, and glorified body. ~Behold, all this
786 1 | deliver~thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. For all this is bringing '
787 1 | wrong out to be right], nor glossing it over or keeping silent~
788 Pref | are~altogether shameful gluttons and servants of their own
789 3 | to inchastity,~laziness, gluttony and drunkenness, avarice
790 1 | will. And especially is a goal set up here for our jurists
791 1 | God's Word, if it is~to be God-pleasing or holy. Where this is done,
792 1 | know how they may do truly golden~works; a matter which has
793 Pref2| record at the close of their Gospels~when Christ said farewell
794 1 | wicked person. But if we gossip about another in all~corners
795 1 | and excellent teaching for~governing well the tongue, which is
796 1 | all its retinue, which has~grabbed by theft the wealth of all
797 3 | deserve, but would deal~graciously with us, and forgive, as
798 3 | and~although He abundantly grants and preserves these things
799 1 | free through Christ. But to grasp a Christian meaning for
800 1 | reason, these words~must be grasped as being directed against
801 1 | coffer and pockets, but to be grasping in the~market, in all stores,
802 1 | duty before the world to be grateful for~benefits and every good
803 1 | magistris~non potest satis gratiae rependi, that is, To God,
804 1 | never render sufficient gratitude and compensation. He~that
805 1 | who on account of their~greed or frivolity neglect to
806 1 | will hang them, not upon a green gallows, but upon a dry
807 1 | devil himself. For such groaning and calling will be no jest,
808 3 | as vulgar people do, who grope in such~delusion and ask
809 2 | upon earth a little holy group and congregation of pure~
810 2 | sanctification has begun and is growing~daily, we expect that our
811 3 | and priests,~who howl and growl day and night like fiends;
812 5 | those of us who~are old and grown, but also for the young
813 1 | out of the country and to grudge them a piece of bread and,
814 3 | would beg only for a dish of gruel, he~would be rightly considered
815 1 | hour comes we are angry and grumble with~impatience and all
816 1 | commandment He both sanctions and guards it. He has~sanctioned it
817 1 | spiritual~fathers who govern and guide us by the Word of God; as
818 1 | that the young may be so guided that they~conceive a liking
819 4 | further. But these blind guides are unwilling to see this,~
820 1 | commonest craft and the largest guild on earth, and if we regard
821 1 | an eternal fountain~which gushes forth abundantly nothing
822 3 | language is understood, that to hallow is the~same as in our idiom
823 4 | blather and say: How is a handful of~water to help the soul?
824 1 | compelled to examine and handle the patient whom he is to~
825 1 | they have served,~and will hang them, not upon a green gallows,
826 3 | done. For there will~be happenings quite strange if we are
827 3 | which things the best~and happiest life consists. Now follows
828 1 | trade~and wantonly drives a hard bargain, skins and distresses
829 1 | that everything be done in harmonious~order, and no one create
830 1 | imposition practiced under the hat, as we say, that it may~
831 1 | not accost~them roughly, haughtily, and defiantly, but yield
832 1 | because of such hardened heads who imagine because~God
833 1 | never had a~happy hour or a healthful day, and thus perished miserably
834 1 | consecrated garments upon a heap,~still that would help us
835 1 | it, and have it only from hearsay. But you~say: Shall I not
836 3 | the agonizing misery and~heartache of which there is such an
837 1 | the will of God,~and with hearty confidence and invocation
838 4 | Christ was baptized, the~heavens were opened and the Holy
839 1 | Feiertag) is rendered from the Hebrew word Sabbath~which properly
840 1 | this commandment wishes to hedge round~about and protect [
841 1 | here He has (as we said ) hedged it about and protected it.~
842 1 | chose St. Lawrence as his helper in need; if he dreaded pestilence,
843 Pref | so many~[excellent and] helpful books, and the true Sermones
844 1 | pleasure, and a life of ease, Hercules,~Mercury, Venus or others;
845 | hereby
846 | herein
847 5 | wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,~envyings, murders, drunkenness,
848 2 | it is treated almost as heresy~if one should attempt to
849 1 | would say:~Whatever you have heretofore sought of the saints, or
850 1 | former commandments, it~is herewith forbidden, in the first
851 1 | read in the (Gospel of King Herod that~he took his brother'
852 | herself
853 1 | deference as to a majesty there hidden, and requires not only that~
854 1 | these poor wretched persons hide when in the sight of~God
855 1 | swivel-chair robbers, land- and~highway-robbers, not pick-locks and sneak-thieves
856 5 | full of infirmities, as St. Hilary~also has said: If any one
857 5 | man, and there are so many hindrances and~temptations of the devil
858 1 | them;~as little as now with hired help, when a proprietor
859 1 | will find a~plenty in all histories, also in the memory of aged
860 1 | demonstrated this in all history, as the Scriptures~abundantly
861 3 | pleases Him, or~whether I have hit upon the right proportions
862 1 | people skin, pinch,~and hoard, but we will trust in God --
863 1 | end to the beginning~and holding them all together, that
864 1 | wealth of all the world, and holds it to this day?~This is,
865 Pref2| Thou shalt sanctify the holy-day. [Remember the Sabbath-day
866 1 | which the world knows for honoring them is to drive~them out
867 1 | first, how gloriously God honors and extols this estate,
868 1 | the~commandments, like a hoop in a wreath, joining the
869 1 | place: If he hear thee, thou host gained thy brother. Then
870 1 | that we have cause to be hostile to them. ~As when your neighbor
871 1 | matresfamiliae that is,~housefathers and housemothers. So also
872 3 | us at home towards good housekeeping, that He~give and preserve
873 1 | that is,~housefathers and housemothers. So also they called their
874 1 | friendship, and concord in their houses; thus the children~could
875 1 | says: In Christ Jesus I hove~begotten you through the
876 3 | of monks and priests,~who howl and growl day and night
877 3 | prayer, but the bare, useless howling and murmuring we~reject,
878 1 | promote their~interest, howsoever and wherever you can, purely
879 1 | besides, who will reward you a~hundredfold, so that you are even a
880 1 | Matt.25, 42f.: I was an hungered, and~ye gave Me no meat;
881 1 | not be receiving~from God, hut seeking of ourselves. ~Let
882 Pref2| them also some psalms or hymns, which have~been composed
883 1 | to God than any work of hypocrisy, however brilliant.~~
884 2 | or false Christians and~hypocrites, although they believe in,
885 2 | expressions, taken~together, are identical. But formerly the one [the
886 1 | entrusted to him, from indolence idleness, or~malice, to the spite
887 1 | wantonness~with our subjects, ignoring them, as though it were
888 2 | Article II. ~And in Jesus Christ, His
889 2 | Article III. ~I believe in the Holy
890 3 | by His holy Word, and to illumine and strengthen us in the
891 2 | Christ, and, besides, are not~illumined and favored by any gifts
892 2 | and through which] He illumines~and enkindles hearts, that
893 3 | by it, and always seek an illustration from~the other commandments.
894 1 | honor and good report [the illustrious~testimony of an upright
895 3 | always flees from God and~imagines that He does not wish or
896 2 | and all evil, in a~new, immortal, and glorified body. ~Behold,
897 1 | Commandment is to shine and impart its splendor to all~the
898 4 | by the Word such power is imparted to Baptism that it is a
899 5 | feet and become~listless or impatient. Now to this end the consolation
900 3 | necessaries of life also are impeded, so that~ultimately life
901 3 | us in word and deed, and impels us~to anger and impatience.
902 3 | that which is eternal and imperishable?~
903 1 | codes; yea, we even dare impertinently to refer to it, and boast
904 1 | has its course, as it is implanted by God, it is not~possible
905 5 | do it, it is nevertheless implied that we should do it often;
906 2 | makes me holy, as His name~implies. But whereby does He accomplish
907 1 | and what such~virtues imply. But such works are not
908 1 | burdens and high prices are imposed, and every~one uses the
909 1 | and teach us manners by imposing one taxation after another,
910 1 | is a secret and~insidious imposition practiced under the hat,
911 1 | lying words and appearances~[impostures]. For no one has so little
912 1 | strike him in the neck [makes imprecations, which if fulfilled~with
913 1 | land and people might be improved and likewise well~educated
914 1 | there will be a~spontaneous impulse and a desire gladly to do
915 Pref2| expelled and considered incapable. Therefore we must have
916 1 | a sufficient reason and incentive to us to do what we can
917 3 | armed and daily expect to be~incessantly attacked, in order that
918 3 | and incites us daily to inchastity,~laziness, gluttony and
919 1 | interpreted as to forbid any other~incidental work that cannot be avoided. ~
920 3 | Then comes the devil, inciting and provoking in all directions,
921 3 | it briefly, this petition includes everything that belongs~
922 2 | possesses,~brought to it and incorporated into it by the Holy Ghost
923 3 | Sacraments by which He so incorporates us~in Himself that everything
924 2 | forgiveness of sins~bestows, increases, and strengthens faith in
925 1 | away in a harsh manner [incur the~penalty of a false accusation]. "
926 1 | to the~remotest parts of India]. For although the whole
927 1 | comprehensive], as~just indicated, it is necessary to urge
928 4 | unspeakable treasure, which also~indicates sufficiently that it cannot
929 5 | for those who are cold~and indifferent, that they may reflect upon
930 3 | not go about coldly and indifferently, whereby~they become daily
931 1 | goods entrusted to him, from indolence idleness, or~malice, to
932 3 | For our flesh is in itself indolent and inclined to evil,~even
933 1 | and presents~such cordial inducements and such rich promises. ~
934 1 | avoid marriage, and either~indulge in open and shameless prostitution,
935 1 | must necessarily be such inequality~and ordered difference,
936 3 | good, but for an eternal inestimable treasure and~everything
937 1 | profit. Hence it is a natural~inference, since using the holy name
938 3 | people, which~often wound and inflame even an innocent heart. ~
939 1 | misfortunes. ~Whoever will not be influenced by this and inclined to
940 1 | the religious estate, and infringe upon the~sanctity of Carthusians,
941 1 | such as now are daily~most ingeniously contrived) as though they
942 1 | and~wrangle about a large inheritance, real estate, etc., they
943 5 | the~Sacrament as something injurious from which we had better
944 1 | or~as a traveler uses an inn, and food, and his bed only
945 1 | also, if you see any one innocently sentenced to death or in~
946 1 | disorder by unnecessary innovation. ~Therefore this is the
947 3 | denial of God, blasphemy, and innumerable other shocking~things. These
948 1 | For these words are not inoperative or dead, but~creative, living
949 1 | Reflect for yourself or make inquiry and tell me: Those who have~
950 4 | derive their nobility. But~insane reason will not regard this,
951 3 | necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites~
952 1 | for it is a secret and~insidious imposition practiced under
953 1 | though they were far too insignificant, or had long ago~been perfectly
954 4 | against faith; while we alone insist upon it as being of such~
955 1 | merchandise or labor. ~As, for instance, to explain this somewhat
956 2 | accomplish it altogether in an instant, and will~forever preserve
957 5 | timid that every~one was instantly thrown into consternation
958 1 | not employ our tongue to instigate or counsel thereto. Further,
959 1 | every one may~stand in his integrity before wife, children, servants,
960 1 | days~not for the sake of intelligent and learned Christians (
961 3 | lost. For if He did not intend to answer your prayer, He
962 2 | know Him fully. And this is intended to help us~do that which
963 5 | grace and absolution nor intends to reform. ~But whoever
964 3 | two things~are hindered [intercepted and disturbed] that they
965 3 | they do not lose the~common intercession, and beware lest this petition
966 3 | with whom we live~and have intercourse in daily business and conversation
967 4 | after? But how dare you~thus interfere with God's order, and tear
968 3 | against everything which interferes~with it. Therefore you must
969 1 | allow such a thing, but to interpose and prevent it. And, on~
970 1 | concern us. For they do not interpret~them as referring to unchastity
971 3 | prayer of a few~godly men intervened like a wall of iron on our
972 5 | has~not been invented nor introduced by any man, but without
973 1 | would have been no need of inventing monasticism nor~spiritual
974 1 | evil, to prefer charges, to investigate~and testify; and it is not
975 5 | because of which this command, invitation~and promise are given, ought
976 1 | teaching, and when~the name is invoked in trouble or praised and
977 1 | and seek to~confirm it by invoking the name of God and using
978 3 | intervened like a wall of iron on our side? They should
979 1 | educate his [rebellious~and irritable] child, he employs a schoolmaster
980 1 | has given us children, and issued this command that we~should
981 1 | such tongues right if their itch for slander~were severely
982 1 | themselves say: Vigilantibus iura subveniunt [that is,~The
983 3 | receive nothing. As St. James says [1, 6]:~But let him
984 2 | us poor lost men from the jaws of hell,~has won us, made
985 1 | like a hoop in a wreath, joining the end to the beginning~
986 2 | of the same a sharer and joint owner of all the goods it
987 1 | he can, that~the other is judicially deprived of it, and it is
988 1 | power and~dominion elevated Jupiter as the supreme god; the
989 1 | aggravated when we attempt to justify it, and seek to~confirm
990 4 | have separated? For the kernel in the water is God's Word
991 1 | means to~do so, you have killed him. And it will not avail
992 2 | heart would be warmed and kindled to be~thankful, and to employ
993 3 | that He give to emperors, kings, and all estates, and~especially
994 2 | assembly. ~Thus the word Kirche (church) means really nothing
995 5 | If you could see how many knives, darts, and arrows~are every
996 2 | own language they call it kyria, as in Latin it~is called
997 5 | concludes in Rom. 7, 18: l know that in me, that~is,
998 1 | some one navigating and laboring in deep water~[and struggling
999 1 | and honored St. Apollonia [lacerated his flesh by voluntary~fasting
1000 2 | Father. What, then, was lacking? This, that the Holy~Ghost
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