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The Reformation · 1606
Sacred Meditations
Johann Gerhard · 1582–1637
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What it is
Fifty-one short meditations on sin, grace, the sacraments, and death, written by a twenty-four-year-old who had nearly died of illness twice.
Why it lasted
The devotional companion to the driest era of Lutheran scholasticism, and evidence that its greatest dogmatician had a warm interior life.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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