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The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther, Tr. by H. Bell
The Familiar Discourses of Dr Martin Luther Tr by H Bell Author:Martin Luther General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CAPTAIN HENRY BJBIiIi0 h I' T THE MIRACULOUS PRESERVING OP TJR. MARTIN LUTHER? S BOOK, ENTITLED , , HIS DIVINE DISCOURSES .'.'" v./. i ..... .1'. . AT HIS TABLE, ... r -, -. . -. . s .. ...... -. - ,. - ..,. Beld with divers learned Men ; such as were , - ; :' Philip Melancthon, Casparius Cruciger, Justus Jonas, Paulus Eberus . . i Vitus Dielericus, Joannes Bugenhagen, Joannes . ' ' . Forsterus, and others : Containing divers Discourses touching1 Religion and other main Points of Doctrine ; as also many notable Histories, and all sorts of Learning1, Comforts, Advices, Prophecies, Admonitions, Directions, and Instructions : and how the same Book was, hy God's Providence, discovered lying under the ground, where it had lain hid Fifty-two years ; and waa a few years since sent over to the said Captain Henry Bell, and by Wni translated out of the High German into the English Tongue. " I, CAPTAIN HENRY BELL, do hereby declare, both to the pre- Senl age, and also to posterity, -that being employed beyond the seas in state affairs divers years together, both by King James, and also by the late King Charles, in Germany, 1 did hear and understand, in all places, great bewailingand lamentation made, by reason of the destroying and burning of above fourscore thousand of Jlartin Luther's books; entitled His Last Divine Discourses. ' For after such time as God stirred up the spirit of Martin Luther to detect the corruptions and abuses of Popery, and to preach Christ, and clearly to set forth the simplicity of the Gospel, many Kings, Princes, and States, Imperinl Cities, and Hans-Towns, fell from the P...« less