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
Introductory material scanned from the 1907 reprint
This electronic text is in the public domain
by John H. Richards
([email protected]), March 1995
by Harry Plantinga
([email protected]), 1996
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.