Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
father_n ghost_n holy_a nature_n 20,678 5 5.8553 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A06511 The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal articles of religion which are in controuersy, which he wil defend & mai[n]teine vntil his death, agaynst the pope and the gates of hell drawe[n] furth by him at the request of the princes of germany which haue reformed theier [sic] churches after the gospel, to be offred vp at the next general councel in all their names & now published before that all the world may haue an euydent testimony of his faith if it shal fortune him to dye before there be any such cou[n]cel, tra[n]slated out of latyn beware of the pope & of his false prophetes and bissopes for thei wil come in shepys clothing and in angels facys but yet inwardly thei are ravening wolnys [sic]. Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. 1543 (1543) STC 16984; ESTC S104350 31,138 66

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

procured thē selues ꝑpetual shame and dishonor / which thīg god doth yet daily also I must nedes shewe vtter a certī story that cometh now to my mid There was at wittenberg a certē do●tor sent hether frō frāce which said opēly before our faces th● the king his master did surely bileue that there was no maner of church or cōgregacion with● us / no maner of rulars nor officers And that there shuld be no maner of matrimony but that euery mā shuld rūne at large now to one womā now to a nother euē aftir the maner of brute beastes / and agaime that it shuld be lauful for euery priuate mā to vse or misuse / do or vndo all maner of thīghs after his own wil iust c. Now tel me I pray yow with what face shal these men dare loke vp on us at the latter day before the iudgement seate of christ which haue tolder persuaded bi their letters writīgs / this Fig other peple noble mē such mōstros abhominable lyes / for tru tales Christ all our lorde / the most rightful iudge is our witnesse that thei lye shamefully vp on us and haue euer done whose sentēce and iudgemēt cōdemnīg them to euerlastīg dānacion thei shal not chose but heare abide This am I sure of Now god turn cōuert thē to repētāce which cā by any possible meanes be cōuerted / as for other euerlastīg and most cruel ponischment dānaciō doth remaine for thē But now to come to my putpose agaī / I wold wissh surely ones to see a true coūcel wherby many cōtrouersys might be takē a way ād many mē might receiue profi not that we our selues haue nede o any such coūcel or plamēt for our churches are so lighned cōfirmed ī the pure word / of god ī rhe true vse of sacramētes / ād in the knoulege of all good order all good workes that for our cause we desire no maner of perlament or councel / for we cannot think that any councel can teach vs a more perfight order than we haue But we see with depe sorow lamentacion of our hartes mani parisshes miserably destitute / forsakē vnregarded both of bisshops and of prebendarys we see in theer diocyses parisshes after what sort the sely miserable peple do lyue and dye for whose saluacion Christ him self suffred death vp on the crosse and yet thei cā not be suffred to heare nether him their tru shepard pastor / nor yet none of his speaking and preaching vnto them for the which cause tremble feare vehemently lesse god wil shortly call bring all the world to a councel by some angel / which shal vtterley destroy us all / as he did ones Sodom Gomor / for as moch as we contemne mocke him so lightly thorow our councels And beside those thīgs which are necessary to be reformed in the spiritualty / as thei cal it there be an infinite nomber of abuses in the temporal regiment to be redressed for there is vncharitable grudgd and dissensyon betwene princes and other nobles and vsury couetosnes haue so farre preuayled hath so drowned the temporalty euen lyke a flode or a see that now in the place of the lawe are crept in / ryot / vnmesurable excesse / wantones / pryde in apparel / glotony bankerting / dise / cardes and pompe / withal kindes of vices mischefe / disobedience of subiectes and housoldes toward theer heades / pestilent enhansing of all maner of marchandise in biyng seiling / these I say / with an infinyte sort such life / haue so preuailed that thei can not be reformed in X. councels nor in XX. assembles These principal matters both of the temporalty of the spiritualty / if thei shuld be entreated of in a general coūcel / thei shuld make us to haue so moch labor and besines / that we shuld sone forget litle regard the folissh triflyng about long gownes brode shauyn crownes / fryres girdels / bisshops forked cappes / carnal hattes / ād croser staues with such other trifyls for it were time inough to entreate of the choise of meates / the differēce of garmeetes short or lōg of the shauīg of crounes of cloisters / after that the prīcipal articles of the faith with a godly politike ordre for the comonwelth were determined cōcluded by the word of god But if we wil swalow op Vhole camels / and strayne gnaties / if we wil receiue suffer gret beames in our eys pluck out the smal motys / if we wil stomble at a strane leape at a block / we nede not be so gretly cariful for any councels wherfor I haue made but a very fewe chapters principal articles for els we haue so many cōmandmēts geuē vs of god to be obserued in his church / in the comynalty / and in euery particular house parissh / that we are neuer able to perform them wherfor what nede is it to make many actes decreys and tradicions beside specially if the principal articles and cōmandments enioined us bi god himselfe be neglect and nothing regarded / as though god must geue place to our folissh trifles because we treade his special cōmandmenas / vnder our fete like swyne But our sinnes do so sore vexe oppresse lade us that thei wil not suffer god to haue mercy vpon ue / because we do not repēt nor amend / but rather study and labor to stablissh mainteyne all maner of wickednes O merciful lord Iesu christ / were saue then thy self to celebrate a councel to redeme thi elect thorow thy own glorios presens for of the pope and of his adherents ther is no hope at all thei wil in no wise receiue the. wherfor help thou us pore miserable creatures / crieng calling vnto the / seking the ernestly / for the abowndant mercys safe that thou hast geuen thorow thi holy spirite which liueth reigneth with the with the father to be praised glorified for euer and euer Amen The first part conteineth the special articles of the diuine maiesty of god I. We confesse first that the father / son / the holy gost in one diuyne substance nature be●… distinct persons yet one god which created heauen and erth II. That the father was without begimming ano the son had his begimming of the father / and that the holy gost did procede of them both III. That the father nor the holy gost did neuer take op on them mannys nature / but theson only IIII. That the son was so incarnate that he was conceiued by 〈◊〉 the holy gost without any mās helpe / born of the pure holy virgyng Mary and after ward that te suffred his passion / dyed was buryed / destended to ●e hellys Rose fro death / asceded heauen sitteth at the right hand of the father / and that he shal come