Preface.

...it also rages against those sins which might tear apart the good civil order Policey-Ordnung: the set of laws and regulations maintaining public morality and social stability; but over other sins and abuses, it does not lose a single wink of sleep literally "does not let a gray hair grow," meaning they are unconcerned. 5. It is proud and puffed up, and will not take advice from a poor man. One can hold the aforementioned persons up to this mirror and decide the question, etc. See original: "vide," Latin for "see" Theophil Großgebauer’s Watchman’s Voice from the Desolated Zion, Chapter 17, page 368.

Both the examples of the scribes and Pharisees in Jerusalem, as well as the obvious present-day experiences of God-fearing theologians original Latin: "Theologorum", show how the decline of Christians into a worldly life stems from the greatest part of the so-called spiritual estate the clergy. Although we have already received the Gospel: the core message of Christian salvation again from Luther in Germany more than a hundred and fifty years ago, he nonetheless makes the vast majority of today’s teachers under the Evangelical name: the title used by the Lutheran reform movement suspect with these very words:

Experience also shows that in no place in the world has the Gospel remained clear and pure for longer than a man’s memory meaning the span of a single generation; rather, as long as those who brought it forth remained, it stood and increased. Once they were gone, the light was also gone, and soon there followed sectarian spirits Rotten-Geister: a derogatory term used by Luther to describe radical reformers or fanatics who caused division 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 Seeligkeit: eternal happiness or the state of being saved, and pleasant days; but soon