Little Prayer Book
Gebet-Buechlein
Unknown
German
Caspar Schwenckfeld c. 1540 · published 1806
302 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is an anonymous, localized German devotional prayer book printed in 1806, likely in Pennsylvania (given the context of German-American imprints of that era). Extensive searches across major library catalogs, including the Library of Congress, Google Books, and various scholarly databases, yielded no evidence of any English translation. Such minor, anonymous devotional texts were typically intended for specific immigrant communities and were rarely, if ever, translated into English.
Verified Mar 31, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, loc · methodology
About This Book
theologychristian-mysticism
Step inside a lost world of radical devotion where prayer is not a ritual, but a 'heartfelt, loving conversation' that transforms the soul. This 'Little Prayer Book' offers a visceral guide to the inner life, teaching readers how to find the 'Heavenly Physician' amidst suffering, persecution, and the noise of the world.
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