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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06521	Special and chosen sermons of D. Martin Luther collected out of his writings and preachings for the necessary instruction and edification of such, as hunger and seeke after the perfect knowledge and inestimable glorie which is in Christ Iesu, to the comfort and saluation of their soules. Englished by VV.G.; Sermons. English. Selections	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Gace, William.	1578 (1578)	STC 16993; ESTC S108932	436,833	500

prayer consisteth the Psalmes and other prayers of the Scripture For commonly in the Scripture vessels signifie wordes for that our meaninges are contained in wordes as in a vessel and by wordes are vttered and receiued as out of a vessell as wine water burning coles and such like are contained in vessels and taken out of vessels So by the cuppe of Babylon Apoc. 17. the doctrine of men is vnderstood and by the cuppe wherein the blood of Christ is dronke the Gospell Furthermore burning coles What is signified by the burning coles whereon the inceÌ„se was layde whereupon the frankincense was layde signifie giuing of thankes and rehearsing of benefites in prayer which we are wont to do in making supplication For that by fierie coles benefites are signified it is manifest euen out of the 12. to the Rom. where the Apostle reciteth the saying of Salomon Prouerb 25 If thine enemie hunger feede him if he thirst giue him drinke for in so doing thou shalt heape coles of fire on his head And benefits may be rightly called coles of fire forasmuch as they inflame the heart with loue although it be cold In the Lawe it was prohibited to laye the frankincense vpon any other coles but them that were of the altar of the Lord which signifieth that we must not rehearse our own good deedes in prayer as that Pharise did Luc. 15 but onely the benefits of God bestowed vpon vs in Christ He is our altar We must giue thankes to God by Christ by him we must offer for the benefits receiued by him we must giue thaÌ„kes and make mention of them in prayer for the increasing of our faith This Paule teacheth Coloss 3. where he sayth Do all thinges in the name of the Lord Iesus giuing thankes to God the Father by him For God can not suffer that thou shouldest glorie of any thing els in his sight which he declared in a type or figure Leuit. 10 where we read that Nadah and Abihu the sonnes of Aaron were taken and consumed of the flame from the altar of God because they burned incense taking other fire then of the altar of the Lord. The workes of Christ only are acceptable to God wherefore for these onely we must both giue thankes and reioyce in prayer The petitioÌ„s made in prayer signified by the inceÌ„se layd on the burning coles The incense signifieth the petitions made in prayer For petitions are whereof prayer consisteth and which ascend vnto God according as Paul sayth Let your petitions be shewed vnto God wherein he seemeth to haue considered and interpreted them as a sauour ascending from the censer As though he had said when ye will burne incense sweete and acceptable vnto the Lord make that your petitions be shewed vnto God with supplication and giuing of thankes this incense and this sauour as it is most sweete vnto God so doth it ascend straight vnto heauen like vapoures of smoke and entreth euen vnto the throne of God And as burning coles do giue a strong sauour and make it ascend vpward so the memorie of the benefites of God which we rehearse by giuing of thankes and whereof we do as it were aduertize God and our selues doth make prayer stedfast and bold which cheerefully and gladly ascendeth into heauen without which truly prayer fainteth is cold and of no force Wherefore whosoeuer thou art before thou pray with faith and effectually they heart must be inflamed with the memorie of the benefits which God hath bestowed vpon vs in Christ But perhaps some man will demaund how our petitions be shewed or become manifest vnto God seeing that they be not onely knowne vnto him before we praye but he also doth send vs that which we aske Whereunto I aunswere the Apostle adioyned this that he might teach of what sort true prayer ought to be We must not praye at aduenture but be certainly perswaded that we shal be heard of God to wit assured and hauing confidence and trust in God which passeth not away into the winde neither is made at aduenture as their prayer is which pray and haue no regard whether God heareth or not yea rather beleeue that he doth not heare which vndoutedly is not to praye or to aske of God but to tempt and mocke God For if any man did desire money of me whom I certainly knew not to perswade himselfe that he should receiue it I could not suffer such an asker of whom I might assure my selfe to be mocked how much more is God offended at our much crying out and babbling when we do continually babble much crie out do not thinke at all whether he heareth vs. Learne therefore here How our petitions are shewed vnto God that they petitions must be shewed vnto God that is that thou must so aske that thou dout not that they petitions be knowne and accepted of God and beleeue certainly that thou shalt obtaine what soeuer thou doest aske with which faith if thou be endued it shall so come vnto thee in deede For as we belteue so it commeth vnto vs. Wherefore as the smoke carieth the sauour vpward from the censer so faith carieth the petitions of the beleeuers into the sight of God whereby we assuredly beleeue that our petitions shall come vnto God and that we shall vndoutedly obteine those thinges that we aske Paul by these wordes be shewed did vndoutedly meane that which is eftsoones in the Psalmes God hath heard my petition Giue eare Lord vnto my prayer and such like Hereof Christ speaketh Matth 21 and Mar. 11. Whatsoeuer ye shall aske in prayer if ye beleeue ye shall receiue it And Iames saith chap. 1 Aske in faith and wauer not for he that wauereth shall receiue nothing of the Lord. Who may not now hereof perceiue that that much babbling and crying out which is made commonly through the world in monasteries is a mocking and deluding of God The prayers of these if they may be called prayers are aboundantly shewed before men for they crie out and babble too much but there is no regard of them with God they are not knowne of him neither come they vnto his eares that is he doth by no meanes heare them for that they do not beleeue or are assured that their crying out or much babbling is heard of God wherefore as they beleeue so do they receiue It was time therefore long since that those mockinges and blasphemies of God should be abolished But if we praye as we are here taught there shal be nothing surely which we may not obtaine Why we ofteÌ„times praie and receiue not Now we praye for many things continually and receiue nothing neither is it any meruell seeing we praye so that our petitions be not shewed vnto God for that we do not beleeue that they be manifest vnto him Wo to our diffidence and incredulitie And the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding shall preserue your hearts and myndes in Christ Iesus In

But he loueth vs also after an other speciall maner in that he hath giuen his sonne for vs. Ioh. 3. For he hath aboundantly bestowed vpon vs all temporall and also eternall good things yea his owne self and hath as it were poured him selfe with all that he is hath and can into vs who were sinners vnworthy enemies and seruaunts of Satan so that he could not doe and giue vnto vs more greater thinges Now he whom this diuine fire of loue which filleth heauen and earth and yet is not comprehended doth not kindle inflame to loue likewise his neighbour whosoeuer he be friend or enemy he I say wil neither by law precepts doctrine threatnings and force be euer moued to godlines loue VValke sayth the Apostle in loue whereby he signifieth that our life should be nothing els In what kind of loue we must walke but meere loue Howbeit he will not haue vs walke in the loue of the world which in loue seeketh those things which are his owne and loueth so long as there is any thing wherby it looketh for commoditie and lucre Therefore he sayth Euen as Christ hath loued vs who neither sought nor could looke for any profit or commoditie of vs and yet he loued vs so greatly that he gaue him selfe for vs and not onely his other good things which he giueth vs daily and he so gaue him selfe for vs that he might be an oblation and sacrifice to obtayne the good will and fauour of the father toward vs and to bring to passe that we might now haue God a mercifull and fauourable father being become his true children and heires c. So also it behoueth vs to giue and lend not onely to our friendes but also to our enemies neither to count this sufficient but to be ready also euen to dye both for friendes and foes thinking nothing else but that we may serue and profit our neighbours both in body and goods as long as we shall be in the pilgrimage of this life seeing that we possesse all thinges being giuen vnto vs by Christ To be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God This maner of speech Paul borowed out of the old Testament wherein those corporall sacrifices are written eftsoones to haue yeelded to the Lorde a sweete sauour that is to haue bene acceptable vnto him The sacrifices of the olde Testament accepted for Christes sake who was to come Christ the onely sacrifice which God accepteth wherby we are acceptable vnto him Notwithstanding that was not because of the worke and sacrifice in it selfe as the Iewes falsely thought therefore were very often reproued of the Prophets but for Christes sake who was to come the one and onely sacrifice of a good sauour whom all those sacrifices of the lawe did shadow forth and represent Wherefore that which Paule here sayth is as much as if he had sayd All the sacrifices of the olde Testament haue an ende they can nowe be of no price Christ him selfe is the onely sacrifice which yeeldeth vnto God a sweete smelling sauour that is is pleasing and acceptable vnto him whereby we are assured that we are acceptable vnto God and do please him Wherefore there is no other sacrifice in the Church which may be offered for vs beside this onely sacrifice which being once offered hath at once satisfied for the sinnes of all the elect And although we after the example of this sacrifice doe offer our bodies to God as Paule teacheth Rom. 12 yet we offer them not either for our selues or for other forasmuch as that is proper to Christ the onely sacrifice whereby the saluation of all is obtayned Wherefore those thinges smell moste stinkingly before God whatsoeuer men offer with this mind as though they would satisfie for their own sinnes or for the sinnes of other whereof we both haue and will elsewhere speake more But fornication and all vncleannes or couetousnes let it not be once named among you Vncleannes By the name of vncleannes beside fornication he vnderstandeth all lust lecherous filthines which is committed out of matrimonie which for the filthines of them he doth not vouchsafe to rehearse by name as Rom. 1. he speaketh very grossely of them Although in matrimonie also a meane may be exceeded it is the dutie of Christians so to moderate the vse of mariage that they require performe due loue beneuoleÌ„ce only for auoiding fornication but we are fallen so farre that they are most rare which come togither onely for procreation of children and to auoid fornication which surely were best and should very well become vs. Nowe the Apostle sayth let it not be once named among you that is be so farre from these euils that they may not so much as be spoken of of you There is often falling among ChristiaÌ„s through infirmitie how true Christians deale in this case Albeit it will neuer come to passe in this exile that none among Christians be weake do not oftentimes fall yet true Christians will neuer winke at those things they will reproue amend put away couer cure whatsoeuer such thing shal burst forth amongst them that the heathen may not be offended and say See what vices the Christians suffer among them selues howe vncleane and lewde a life doe they leade thinking that all their whole life is defiled with like vices as is their owne We must needes confesse that among Christians some doe eftsoones fal which we must needes beare it is wel if onely the better part liueth well winketh not at their sinnes neither teacheth them but rather reproueth and amendeth them So Paule exhorteth Gal. 6. that they which are spirituall wil restore them that offend with the spirit of meekenes And he sharply reproueth the Corinthians for that they did lightly passe ouer many sinnes of certaine persons For sinne being reprehended punished is now counted as no sinne neither can the Church be blamed because of it After the same sort heede must be taken that couetousnes be not named among Christians that is that they become not infamous by the name thereof which they shal bring to passe if when it chauÌ„ceth that couetous meÌ„ be amongst them or one vseth deceit toward an other in their busines and affaires or some contend in iudgement for those outward things if I say they doe not winke hereat but do reproue correct such that the sinceritie of the doctrine of the Gospell may obtaine due estimation among the people there may be no cause opeÌ„ly to dispraise our ministerie 2. Cor. 6. These things I haue spoken because of them who as soone as they see that all thinges do not resemble shew forth a holines among Christians that some doe stumble fall do thinke that there is no Christian left that the Gospel is to no purpose that all things are taught and done in vaine As though the life of

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