Preface.

...she also rages against those sins which might tear apart good civil order Policey-Ordnung: the legal and social regulations governing public life; but regarding other sins and abuses, she does not let a single gray hair grow An idiom meaning she is entirely unconcerned or does not worry about them.. 5. She is proud and puffed up, and will not be told anything by a lowly man. One can hold the aforementioned persons up to this mirror Spiegel: a common literary metaphor for a self-examination or a standard of conduct. and decide the question, etc. See original: "vide" Theophil Großgebauer’s Watchman’s Voice upon the Desolated Zion Zion: a biblical term for Jerusalem, used here to represent the true Church, Chapter 17, page 368.

Both the examples original: "Exempla" of the scribes and Pharisees in Jerusalem, as well as the obvious present-day experiences of God-zealous theologians original: "Theologorum", show how the decay of Christians into a worldly life stems from the greater part of the so-called spiritual estate The clergy or professional ministry.. Although we already received the Gospel original: "Evangelium" once again from Luther original: "Luthero" in Germany more than a hundred and fifty years ago, he nevertheless makes the largest crowd of today's teachers who use the Evangelical name suspicious with these very words:

Experience also shows that in no place in the world has the Gospel remained clear and pure longer than a man’s memory meaning within a single generation or lifetime; rather, as long as those who brought it forth remained, it stood and increased; but when they were gone, the light was also gone, and there soon followed factional spirits original: "Rotten-Geister"; refers to divisive or sectarian groups and false teachers.

So it is now as well: we have the Gospel fine and pure, and it is the time of grace or salvation and pleasant days; but soon