Sixth Commandment Martin Luther and other founders of separate Christian churches speak of Mary Mother of God
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Martin Luther, founder of the Reform, speaks of Mary In his sermon on August 15, 1522, the last time Martin Luther preached on the Feast of the Assumption said
No doubt the Virgin Mary is in heaven. We do not know how it happened. And, as the Holy Spirit has not told us anything about it, we can not do an article of faith ... It is enough to know that she lives in Christ.
The veneration of Mary is in the depths of the heart (Sermon, September 1, 1522)
(She is) the highest woman and the noblest gem in Christianity after de Cristo...ella es la nobleza, sabiduría y santidad personificadas. Nunca podremos honrarla lo suficiente. Aún cuando ese honor y alabanza debe serle dado en un modo que no falte a Cristo ni a las Escrituras. (Sermón, Navidad 1531)
Ninguna mujer es como tú. Tú eres más que Eva o Sara, bendita sobre toda nobleza, sabiduría y santidad. (Sermón, Fiesta de la Visitación, 1537).
Cada uno tendría que honrar a María tal como ella misma lo expresó en el Magnificat. Ella alabó a Dios por sus obras. ¿Cómo podremos entonces nosotros alabarla? El verdadero homenaje de María es en honor de Dios, la alabanza de la Gracia de Dios...María nada es por su propio mérito, but for the sake of Christ ... Mary does not want to go to her, but through her to God. (Explanation of the Magnificat, 1521)
Luther exalts the Blessed Virgin giving the position of "Spiritual Mother" for Christians:
is the consolation and the superabundant goodness of God that man is able to exult in such a treasure: Mary is his real mother ... (Sermon, Christmas, 1522)
Mary is the Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all but it was Christ alone who reposed on her lap ... If he is ours, ought to be in its place there where he is should be also us and all that He has should be ours, and his mother is also our mother. (Sermon, Christmas, 1529).
Martin Luther believed in the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the following are the words of Luther:
"It is sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin, so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God, so that, from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin. " (Sermon: "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God" 1527).
She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin (an excessively large). For the grace of God filled with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. ( Personal {"Little"} Prayer Book , 1522).
Martin Luther on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
The following is an investigation of Dave Armstrong http://www.biblicalcatholic.org/
Christ our Savior, was the real and natural fruit of the womb Virgin Mary ... this without the cooperation of a man and she remained a virgin after that. {
Luther's Works, eds. Jaroslav Pelikan (vols. 1-30) & Helmut T. Lehmann (vols. 31-55), St. Louis: Concordia Pub House (vols. 1-30), Philadelphia: Fortress Press (vols. 31-55), 1955, v.22: 23 / Sermons on John , chaps. 1-4 (1539)}
Christ ... was the only son of Mary and the Virgin Mary bore no children besides Him .. I tend to agree with those who declare that 'brothers' really mean 'cousins' here, for Holy Writ and the Jews always call cousins \u200b\u200bbrothers.
{Pelikan, ibid ., V.22 :214-15 / Sermons on John, chaps. 1-4 (1539)}
- A new lie about me being circulated. According to it I'm supposed to have preached and written that Mary, the Mother of God, was not a virgin before or after the birth of Christ ...
{Pelikan, ibid ., vol.45: 199 / That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew (1523)}
- Scripture does not say or indicate that she has lost her virginity ...
When Matthew (1.25) says that Joseph did not know Mary carnally hata she gave birth to her son does not follow that he knew then, on the contrary, it means you never knew ... This quackery. .. is unjustified ... he never took into account not paid attention to either Scripture or the common language.
{Pelikan, ibid ., Vol.45 :206,212-3 / That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew (1523)}
The editor Jaroslav Pelikan (Lutheran) adds:
- Luther. . . not even consider the possibility that Mary might have had other children besides Jesus. This is consistent with the lifelong acceptance of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe perpetual virginity of Mary
{Pelikan, ibid ., V.22 :214-5
} "... she is full of grace proclaimed to be entirely without sin ... God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil ... God is with them, meaning that everything she did or did not do is divine and the action of God in it. Moreover, God guarded and protected from anything that could be harmful to her "
Ref: Luther's Works, American edition, vol. 43, p. 40, ed. H. Lehmann, Fortress, 1968
." . . She is rightly called not only the man's mother, but also the Mother of God ... it is true that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God "
Ref: Sermon on John 14. 16: Luther's Works (St. Louis , ed. Jaroslav, Pelican, Concordia. vol. 24. p. 107)
"Christ our Savior was the real and natural fruit of Mary's virginal womb ... that without the cooperation of a man and she remained a virgin after .
(Ref: On the Gospel of St. John: Luther's Works, vol. 22. P. 23, ed. Jaroslav Pelican, Concordia, 1957)
"Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother God . Nobody can say anything greater of her, though he many languages \u200b\u200bas there are leaves on the trees. "(From" Commentary on the Magnificat.)
Martin Luther defends the Eucharist
In 1529 Martin Luther engaged in the issue of transubstantiation in the famous conference at Marburg with Zwingli and other Swiss theologians, he maintained his position that Christ is present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist
comments about Luther
"... In the resolutions of the 95 theses Luther rejected any blasphemy against the Virgin and thinks that should be asked for forgiveness for any bad thought or spoken against it." (Ref: Wm. J. Cole, "Was Luther a Devotee of Mary? "in Marian Studies, 1970, p. 116:)
" On the Explanation of the Magnificat in 1521, Luther begins and ends with an invocation to Mary with what Wright feels compelled by what he calls "amazing."
(David F. Wright, Chosen by God: Mary in Evangelical Perspecive, London: Marshall Pickering, 1989, p. 178, Cited from Faith & Reason, Spring 1994, p. 6.)
Other Reformers on Perpetua Mary's virginity
John Calvin- Helvidius showed excessive ignorance in concluding that Mary must have had many children because the term "brothers" of Christ is mentioned several times
{Harmony of Matthew, Mark & \u200b\u200bLuke , sec. 39 (Geneva, 1562), vol. 2 / From Calvin's Commentaries , tr. William Pringle, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1949, p.215; on Matthew 13:55}
- (On Matthew 1.25): The inference he [Helvidius] did, that Mary remained a virgin no more than until their first childbirth and had other children after her husband ... No fair and solidly based inference can be achieved from these words ... as they take place after the birth of Christ. He is called the "Firstborn", but for the sole purpose of informing us that was born of a virgin ... what happened then we are not informed by the historians ... no one can sustain this argument stubbornly, except for one end attached to disputes.
{Pringle, ibid ., Vol. I, p. 107}
- With the word "brethren" Jews include all cousins \u200b\u200band other relatives, whatever the degree of affinity.
{Pringle, ibid ., Vol. I, p. 283 / Commentary on John , (7:3)}
Huldreich Zwingli
- In September 1522, Zwingli was a lyrical defense of the perpetual virginity of Mary, Mother of Christ ... to deny that Mary remained "inviolate" before, during and after giving birth to their son would have to doubt the omnipotence of God ... and would be right and beneficial to repeat the angelic greeting, not prayer, "Ave Maria" ... God felt Mary above all creatures, including angels and saints is their purity, innocence and invincible faith that mankind must follow. Prayer in any way, must be ... only God ...
'Expositio Fidei,' the last pamphlet of his own hand ... there is a special emphasis on the perpetual virginity of Mary
{GR Potter, Zwingli , London: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp.88-9, 395 / The Perpetual Virginity of Mary . . ., Sep. 17, 1522}
- Zwingli in 1524 gave a sermon on "Mary, ever virgin, mother of God."
{Thurian, ibid., P.76}
- I never thought, much less taught, or declared publicly, anything concerning the subject of the Virgin Mary, Mother of our salvation, which would be disrespectful , unjust, undeserved or bad ... I believe with all my heart, according to the word of the Holy Gospel that this pure virgin who brought us the Son of God remained at birth and thereafter, virgin pure and spotless for eternity.
{Thurian, ibid., P.76 / Same sermon}
Heinrich Bullinger
- Bullinger (d. 1575). . . defends the perpetual virginity of Mary ... and attacks against the false Christians who defraud or missed to give deserved praise: "In Mary everything is extraordinary and yet more glorious as it sprung from pure faith and fervent love for God." She is "the most unique and noble member Christian community.
"The Virgin Mary ... full of grace and sanctified by the blood of His only Son and abundantly endowed with the gift of the Holy Spirit and preferred it ... now lives happily with Christ in heaven and is called, and remains ever-Virgin Mother of God "
{In Hilda Graef, Mary : A History of Doctrine and Devotion , Combined ed. of vols. 1 & 2, London: Sheed & Ward, 1965, vol.2, pp.14-5}
John Wesley (founder of the Methodist Church)
- the Blessed Virgin Mary, who, after give birth, continued pure and spotless virgin
{"Letter to a Roman Catholic "/ In This Rock, Nov. 1990, p.25}
English Translation: Zunino Margot
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