Selected Extracts

Preface

compiled a second index original: "Register".

Effort has also been made to provide the printed edition original: "Abdruck" in every possible way as clean and free of errors as possible. We hope that nothing of great significance will be found, provided the kind reader is willing to correct the few errors noted at the end of the work.

Furthermore, since our intention with this printing is directed solely toward our true members—children of one Father in Christ original: "Christo" who know how to judge spiritual matters spiritually a reference to 1 Corinthians 2:13, a key verse for Pietists emphasizing that spiritual truths can only be understood through the Holy Spirit rather than human intellect—we have no need to offer a defense of the Word to the reason-pious original: "Vernunftfromme," a derogatory term for those who prioritize human logic and formal theology over heartfelt, mystical experience and the scholarly. These are a generation apart from us, and they remain unjudged by us in their own principle original: "Principio". They should, however, demonstrate the same discipline and modesty toward us; and if, contrary to our intention, any of these pearls a biblical allusion to Matthew 7:6; the authors view their spiritual insights as "pearls" that the unspiritual might not appreciate should [fall] into [the]