The Secret Chancellery of Anhalt

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How unfathomable, marvelous, and inexpressible are the will, counsels, wisdom, disposition, and permission of God the Almighty, who alone does wonders original: Psalm 35. v. 7. In modern Bibles, the passage regarding God's judgments being a "great deep" is found in Psalm 36:6. and also does great things that cannot be counted (Job, chapter 5, verse 9), and whose judgment is like a great deep (Psalm 35, verse 7). The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation has, in these sorrowful times, seen this more clearly, felt it more effectively, and still feels it more painfully than ever before, for as long as it has stood. For indeed, although the fire initially broke out in Bohemia A reference to the Bohemian Revolt of 1618, which triggered the Thirty Years' War., it soon thereafter seized many other Austrian kingdoms and hereditary lands Hereditary Lands: These were the territories (known as the Erblande) ruled directly by the House of Habsburg by right of inheritance, distinct from the lands they ruled as elected Holy Roman Emperors.. Most of these provinces—so beautiful, magnificent, respectable, and wealthy, gifted with an abundance of all human necessities, and in themselves appearing almost invincible—have been...