Orthodoxy of Teutonic-Boehmian Theosophy Defended

In Matthew 11, verses 25, 26, 27, Christ speaks:

I praise you, Father and Lord of Heaven and Earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to the simple. Yes, Father, for it was so pleasing in your sight. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

1 Corinthians 1, verses 26, 27, 28, 29:

Consider your calling, dear brothers: not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many noble are called. Instead, God has chosen what is foolish before the world, so that He might put the wise to shame. And God has chosen what is weak before the world, so that He might put to shame what is strong; and the ignoble before the world and the despised has God chosen, and that which is nothing, so that He might bring to nothing that which is something; so that no flesh may boast before Him.

Luther, in Gruber’s Gleanings, Part 1.

original Latin: "Spicilegio Gruberi." A spicilegium is a collection of "gleanings" or literary excerpts. This refers to a compilation of Martin Luther’s sayings edited by Erasmus Gruber.

original: "Schatz-Kästlein." A popular title for devotional books containing short, valuable excerpts of scripture or theology.

It must be so: God’s Word must be the most wondrous thing in heaven and earth. Therefore, it must do both things at once: it must highly enlighten and honor those who believe it, and highly blind and shame those who do not believe it. To the former, it must be the most certain and well-known thing. To the latter, it must be the most unknown and hidden thing. The former must highly praise and laud it; the latter must highly blaspheme and defame it, so that His work may proceed in its most perfect course—not performing small things, but establishing strange and terrifying works in the hearts of men; just as Saint Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4: that if our Gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost.

The author uses these quotes to validate Jacob Böhme, an uneducated shoemaker, against the "wise" academic theologians like Holtzhausen who attacked him.