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Theologia Germanica
Which setteth forth many fair Lineaments of divine Truth, and saith very lofty and lovely things touching a perfect life
EDITED BY DR. PEIFFER FROM THE ONLY COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT YET KNOWN
Translated from the German by Susanna Winkworth
With a Preface by the Rev. Charles Kingsley Rector of Eversley, and a Letter to the Translator by the Chevalier Bunsen, D.D., D.C.L., etc.
First published as a volume of the Golden Treasury Series in 1874. New Edition 1893
Reprinted 1901, 1907
Scanned from the 1893 Golden Treasury Series edition by John H. Richards ([email protected]), March 1995
Introductory material scanned from the 1907 reprint by Harry Plantinga ([email protected]), 1996
This electronic text is in the public domain
This work was discovered and published in 1516 by Martin Luther, who said of it that “Next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no book has ever come into my hands from which I have learnt more of God and Christ, and man and all things that are.” It has since appealed to Christians of all persuasions.
STRONG Son of God, Immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen Thy face, By faith, and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. * * * * * Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood Thou; Our wills are ours, we know not how, Our wills are ours to make them Thine. * * * * * O Living Will that shalt endure, When all that seems shall suffer shock Rise in the spiritual Rock, Flow through our deeds and make them pure. * * * * * That we may lift, from out the dust, A voice as unto Him that hears, A cry above the conquered years, To one that with us works, and trust * * * * * With faith that comes of self‑control The truths that never can be proved, Until we close with all we loved find all we flow from, soul in soul.
TENNYSON.