Preface

Triumph of Truth original: 'Triumpho Veritatis'. This completes the title mentioned on the previous page. might see / that the Spirit of God has also given me a friendly and lovely tongue / Isaiah 61: but I am to use it just as little toward them / as Christ and Paul used the same against the Pharisees and false apostles / for I could almost feel / how the Spirit of God forbade it to me / Matthew 23.

7. That if God, today or tomorrow / according to His gracious will, so ordained / that I should seal His truth, known until now, with my blood A common early modern expression for martyrdom—dying for one's faith to prove its sincerity. / nevertheless a public testimony of the teaching and hope / which is within me / against the slander of the devil in his servants / who could never endure me for the sake of this teaching / should remain behind as a testimony to the world.

Now may God strengthen us in the teaching, once recognized and confessed, against