Preface.

show the singular mercy, that You would sanctify me as Your faithful servant; for You, the Searcher of Hearts original: Herzenkündiger; a theological term for God’s omniscience regarding human motives and the inner life., know—and I also testify before Your omniscient Majesty and before Your angels—that I desire nor long for no other salvation than that You make me Your faithful and constant servant, and let me perform services well-pleasing to You and to Your people, and help to increase the honor of Your highly-praised Name.

Let me see with my eyes and hear with my ears that Your holy Name be hallowed throughout the whole world; and abolish the shameful Satan, and the ravenous wolves and tyrants who only strangle and scatter Your poor sheep, and thus desecrate the will of Your mercy.

LORD JESUS CHRIST, at the right hand of the power of GOD, You who are with us every day until the end of the world: may this my prayer be heard by the power of Your almighty Name, as surely as You have spoken, that