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Chapter 5Betbuechlein.1.5

Das Vater Unser

The Fatherhood of God

An introduction to the Lord's Prayer, focusing on the privilege of calling God 'Father' through Christ.

A preface and preparation for praying the seven petitions to God. Our Father, who is in heaven.✦ The meaning. O almighty God, since through your boundless mercy you have not only allowed us, but also commanded and taught us through your only dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that through his merit and mediation we should regard and call you Father—even though you might justly, by all standards of righteousness, be a strict judge over us sinners, who have so much and so grievously acted against your divine, most perfect will, and have angered you.✦✦ So, through that same mercy, give us a comforting confidence of your fatherly love in our hearts, and let us taste the lovely savor and sweetness of childlike security, so that we may joyfully name you Father, know you, love you, and call on you in all our needs. Guard us, so that we remain your children and don't become so guilty that we turn you, dearest Father, into a terrifying Judge, and change ourselves from children into enemies. You also want us not to call on you as Father alone, but together as Our Father, so that we pray for everyone alike with one heart. Therefore give us a united, brotherly love, so that we all recognize and regard one another as true brothers and sisters, and pray to you as our common dear Father for all and for everyone, as one child prays for another before their father. Let no one among us seek his own, or forget the other before you; rather, with all hatred, envy, and discord put away, let us love one another as true devout children of God, and so be able with one heart to say not "my Father," but "our Father."✦✦✦ Also, because you are not a bodily father who is on earth, but you who are in heaven—a spiritual Father who does not die, is not uncertain, and is not unable to help himself, as the earthly and bodily father is.✦ So that you may show us how immeasurably better a Father you are, and teach us to hold temporal fatherhood, homeland, friends, goods, flesh and blood as nothing before you.✦1 So grant us, O Father, that we may also be your heavenly children; teach us to attend only to the soul and the heavenly inheritance, so that our temporary homeland and earthly inheritance may not deceive us, entangle us, hinder us, and make us wholly into earthly children—so that we may say with true and solid ground, "O our heavenly Father," and may truly be your heavenly children.

The First Petition: Hallowing the Name

A prayer for the sanctification of God's name in our lives and the world.

The first petition. Hallowed be your name.✦ The meaning. Almighty God, dear heavenly Father, your holy name is, sadly, so often and in so many ways profaned, blasphemed, and reviled in this wretched valley of tears. It is attributed to many things that have no part in your honor, and it is also misused in many matters and for sins, so that even a shameful life might well be called a disgrace and dishonor to your holy name. So grant us your divine grace, that we may keep ourselves from everything that does not serve the honor and praise of your holy Name. Help that all sorcery and false blessings may be done away with.2 Help that every kind of conjuring of the devil or of creatures done through your Name may cease.3 Help that all false belief and superstition may be rooted out. Help that all heresy and false teaching that present themselves under the appearance of your Name may come to nothing. Help that no false show of truth, piety, or holiness may deceive anyone. Help that no one swear by your Name, lie, or deceive. Guard us from every false comfort invented under your Name. Protect us from all spiritual pride and empty honor, and from worldly fame or renown. Help that in all our needs and failings we call on your holy Name. Help that in the anguish of our conscience, and at our last dying, we do not forget your Name. Help that in all our goods, words, and works we praise and honor you alone, and do not take a name for ourselves from them or seek one, but give all to you alone, to whom alone all things belong.4 Protect us from the shameful vice of ingratitude. Help that through our good works and way of life all others may be stirred not to praise us, but to praise you in us and honor your name.✦ Help that no one may be led into offense by our evil works or failings, so as to dishonor your name or slacken in your praise.5 Guard us so that we desire nothing, whether for this life or for eternity, that isn't for the honor and praise of your name. And if we should ask for such things, do not answer our folly.6 Help that our life may be such that we are found to be true children of God, so that your fatherly name is not named over us in vain or falsely. Amen.✦✦7 This type of prayer includes all the psalms and prayers where people praise God, honor Him, sing to Him, and give Him thanks—along with the entire Alleluia.

The Second Petition: The Coming Kingdom

A petition for the reign of God's grace and virtue to overcome the kingdom of the world and the devil.

The Second Petition. May your kingdom come.✦ The meaning. This wretched life is a kingdom of every wickedness, and its lord is the evil spirit—the beginning and chief villain of all wickedness and sin.8 But your kingdom is a kingdom of every grace and virtue, where there is one Lord: Jesus Christ, your dear Son, the head and beginning of every grace and virtue. So help us and show us grace, dear Father. Above all else, give us a true and steadfast faith in Christ, and an undaunted hope in your mercy against all the faint-heartedness of our sinful conscience.9 A fervent, sweet love for you and for all people.10 Guard us from unbelief, despair, and final envy.11 Help us free from the filthy lust of unchastity, and give us a love for virginity and every kind of chastity. Help us out of discord, war, and unrest, and let the virtues of your kingdom come to us: peace and unity, and a quiet life.12 Help us, so that anger or other bitterness does not set up its reign in us, but that through your grace a simple sweetness and brotherly faithfulness may rule in us, with every kind of friendliness, gentleness, and meekness.1314 Help us, so that disordered sadness and heaviness of heart are not in us, but let joy and delight come to us in your grace and mercy.15 And finally, that all sin may be turned away from us, and that we, filled with your grace and with every virtue and good work, may become your kingdom—so that all our heart, spirit, and mind, with every power within and without, may serve you in humble obedience according to your commandments and will, and let themselves be ruled by you alone, not following themselves after the flesh, the world, or the devil.✦✦✦1617 Help this kingdom of yours, which has already begun in us, to increase and to grow better and greater every day. That cunning wickedness may not overtake us, nor sluggishness toward the good, so that we do not fall back again.18 But give us a firm resolve and the strength not only to begin living a godly life, but far more to press on boldly in it and bring it to completion.19 As the Prophet says: Enlighten my eyes, so that I don't fall asleep or grow lazy in the good life I've begun, and so that my Enemy doesn't gain power over me again. Help us stay steadfast in this way, and let your coming kingdom close and complete this kingdom of yours that has already begun.20 Help us out of this sinful, dangerous life.21 Help us long for that life, and become enemies of this one.✦ Help us not to fear death, but to long for it.✦ Turn away from us the love and clinging of this life, so that your kingdom may in every way be brought to completion in us.✦22 All psalms, verses, and prayers in which we ask God for grace and virtue fall under this petition.

The Third Petition: Doing the Divine Will

A prayer for the surrender of our own will to God's perfect will in all circumstances.

The Third Petition.✦ Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. The meaning. Our will, when set against your will, is never good; it is always evil. But your will is always the best—supremely to be loved and desired, to the highest degree. Therefore, have mercy on us, dear Father, and do not let anything happen according to our own will. Give us, and teach us, to have true, thorough patience when our will is broken or hindered. Help us whenever someone says, ignores, does, or neglects something that goes against our will, so that we don't grow angry or bitter—so that we don't curse, complain, cry out, judge, condemn, or talk back.✦23 Help us humbly to yield to those who oppose us and hinder our will, and so to let go of our own, that we praise them, bless them, and do them good—as those who carry out your divine, all-best will against our will.✦24 Give us grace to bear every kind of sickness, poverty, disgrace, suffering, and adversity willingly, and to recognize that this is your divine will, to crucify our own will.✦ Help us suffer wrong gladly as well, and guard us from revenge.✦ Do not let us repay evil with evil, or drive out force with force.✦ Instead, let us take delight in your will that lays such things on us; let us praise you and give you thanks. Do not let us blame the devil or evil people when something meets us against our will, but only your divine will, which orders all such things to hinder our will and for greater blessedness in your kingdom.25 Help us to die willingly and gladly, and to welcome death as your will, so that we don't become disobedient to you through impatience or despair. Help us so that all our members—eyes, tongues, hearts, hands, and feet—aren't left free to their own desires or will, but are held captive, shackled, and broken under your will.26 Guard us from every evil, rebellious, hard-hearted, stiff-necked, obstinate, and self-willed will.27 Grant us true obedience and a perfectly free surrender in all things—spiritual, worldly, temporal, and eternal.28 Protect us from the cruel vices of gossip, slander, backbiting, rash judgment, condemning, and speaking ill of others.29 O the great misfortune and the heavy plague of such Turn tongues far from us. Rather, teach us that when we see or hear something blameworthy and displeasing about others, we keep silent about it, cover it over, lay it before you alone, and commit it to your will—and so sincerely forgive all who are indebted to us, and have compassion for them.30 Teach us to recognize that no one can truly harm us unless they have first done themselves a thousand times more harm in your eyes, so that we may be moved more to mercy toward them than to anger—more to pity them than to seek revenge. Help us not to rejoice when things go badly for those who haven't done our will, or who have otherwise displeased us in their lives. Also that we not grow bitter when things go well for them. All psalms, verses, and prayers in which we pray against sin and our internal enemies fall under this petition.31

The Fourth Petition: Daily Bread

A request for the spiritual and physical sustenance provided by God, centered on Christ.

The Fourth Petition. Give us today our daily bread. The meaning. This bread is our Lord Jesus Christ, who feeds and comforts the soul. Therefore, O dear heavenly Father, give grace that Christ's life, word, works, and suffering may be preached, made known, and held fast among us and throughout the whole world. Help us take his word and works, in every part of life, as a powerful example and mirror of every virtue. Help us, in suffering and adversity, to strengthen and comfort ourselves through and in his suffering and cross. Help us overcome our death through his death by firm faith, and so boldly follow our dear forerunner into the life to come.32 Give grace that all preachers may preach your Word and Christ throughout the whole world, usefully and for salvation.33 Help all who hear your Word preached to know Christ, and through it, sincerely amend their lives. Would you also graciously drive out of the holy Church all alien preaching and teaching where Christ is not learned.34 Have mercy on all bishops, priests, clergy, and those in authority, so that enlightened by your grace, they may rightly teach and lead us through their words and good examples.35 Guard all who are weak in faith, so they don't take offense at the bad example of those in authority.36 Guard us from heretical and apostate teachings, so that we may remain one in one daily bread—in the daily teaching and Word of Christ.37 Teach us by your grace to look rightly on Christ's suffering, take it to heart, and shape it blessedly into our lives. Do not let us be robbed of the holy, true Body of Christ at our final hour.38 Help all priests to administer and use the most holy Sacrament worthily and blessedly, for the betterment of all Christendom. Help us and all Christians to receive the holy Sacrament at the proper time with grace, for our blessing.39 Grant us blessed peace and unity in every land. Protect us from war, strife, and every kind of unrest, so that we may enjoy our daily bread and bodily food in quiet peace, to your praise.✦40 Give all kings, princes, lords, and counselors good understanding and a faithful will to govern their subjects blessedly and peacefully.41 Protect all subjects from rebellion and every kind of disobedience. Teach us by your Spirit to manage our household in a godly way, and to govern children and servants in a Christian manner, for your service, praise, and honor. Protect our children and servants from sin and shame, from danger and harm to body and soul.42 Protect the43 the crops in the field and all the livestock from storms, poison, wild animals, and every kind of harm, etc.44 Would you graciously comfort and deliver all captives, the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the wretched, widows, orphans, the sick, and all troubled people.✦45 Under this petition belong all prayers or psalms in which people pray for those in authority, especially against false teachers; for the Jews, heretics, and all who have gone astray; and also for all troubled and comfortless people, the poor, the needy, and those who suffer.✦46

The Fifth Petition: Forgiveness and Mercy

A plea for divine forgiveness, conditioned by our own willingness to forgive others.

The Fifth Petition.✦ And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. The meaning. This petition includes an addition and a condition: we must first forgive those who owe us. Once that is done, we may then say: Forgive us our debts.47 This is what we already prayed for in the third petition, that God's will be done—and His will is that we patiently bear everything, not repay evil with evil, not seek revenge, but do good in return for evil. Just as our Father in heaven does, who lets His sun rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on those who thank Him and those who do not.48 So we pray: O Father, comfort our conscience, now and at our final hour—which is dreadfully terrified by our sins and your judgment, and will continue to be terrified. Give our hearts your peace, so that we may await your judgment with joy. Do not deal with us according to the severity of your judgment, for no human being will be found righteous there.49 Teach us, dear Father, not to rely on our good works or merit, or take comfort in them, but to venture and entrust ourselves purely and firmly to your bottomless mercy alone.50 In the same way, do not let us despair either because of our blameworthy sinful life, but count your mercy higher, broader, and stronger than all our life.51 Help everyone who is in the anguish of death and under the assault of such despair, especially N.52 or N.53 Forgive them and us all our debts; comfort them, and receive them into your grace. Give us your goodness in place of our wickedness, just as you have commanded us to do.54 Silence the cruel backbiter, accuser, and magnifier of our sins—the evil spirit—now, at our end, and in every anguish of conscience, since we also keep ourselves from backbiting and from magnifying the sins of others.55 Do not judge us by the accusations of the devil and of our wretched conscience, and do not heed the voice of our enemies who accuse us day and night before you, just as we refuse to listen to the backbiters and accusers of others. Take from us the heavy burden of all sin and of conscience, so that with a light, joyful, and heartfelt conscience, in full confidence in your mercy, we may live and die, and may suffer and do all things.56 All psalms and prayers that call on God's mercy for sin belong to this petition.

The Sixth Petition: Deliverance from Temptation

A prayer for strength against the assaults of the flesh, the world, and the devil.

The Sixth Petition.✦ And don't lead us into temptation.✦ The meaning. We have three temptations or assaults: the flesh, the world, and the devil.✦57 Therefore we pray, dear Father: give us grace to master the lust of the flesh. Help us resist its other excesses too: eating and drinking, sleeping, laziness, and idleness.58 Help us make it serviceable and ready for good works through fasting, moderate food, clothing, and bedding, and through watching and working.59 Help us nail to the cross with Christ and put to death its evil bent toward unchastity and all its desires and enticements, so that we neither consent to nor follow any of its assaults.✦ Help us, when we see a beautiful person, an image, or other creatures, that this not become an assault on us, but a reason to love chastity and to praise you in your creatures. When we hear something sweet or feel something lovely, help us not to seek pleasure in it, but your praise and honor. Protect us from the great vice of greed and from craving the riches of this world.✦ Protect us, so that we don't seek the honor and power of this world, or give in to that same inclination. Protect us, so that we aren't drawn by the world's evils and adversities into impatience, revenge, anger, or any other vice.60 Help us renounce and forsake the world's lying, deceiving, false promises, and unfaithfulness—along with all its good and evil, as we pledged in baptism—and to stand firm in that renunciation, growing in it more and more each day.6162 Protect us from the devil's promptings, so we don't give in to pride, self-satisfaction, or contempt for others because of wealth, rank, power, skill, beauty, or any of your other gifts. Protect us, so we don't fall into hatred or envy for any reason. Protect us, so we don't yield to temptation against the faith, or to despair, now and at our final hour.63 Heavenly Father, take into your care all who fight and labor against the great and many-sided temptation. Strengthen those who still stand; help up again those who have fallen and lie down. And give us all your grace, that in this wretched and uncertain life, surrounded without rest by so many enemies, we may fight steadfastly with a knightly, firm faith and obtain the eternal crown.

The Seventh Petition: Deliverance from Evil

A final plea for deliverance from all evil and a confident conclusion to the prayer.

The seventh petition.✦ But deliver us from evil. The meaning. This petition asks for deliverance from every evil of pain and punishment, just as the holy Church does in its litanies.✦ Deliver us, O Father, from your eternal wrath and from the pains of hell. Deliver us from your stern judgment, in death and on the Last Day. Deliver us from sudden death.64 Guard us from water and fire, from lightning and hail. Guard us from hunger and times of scarcity.65 Guard us from wars and bloodshed. Guard us from your great plagues, from pestilence, the French disease, and other serious illnesses.66 Protect us from every evil and from the body's distresses — yet so that in all of this the honor of your Name, the growth of your kingdom, and your divine will may be done.✦ Amen. Help us, God, that we may obtain all these petitions without doubt, and do not let us doubt it: you have heard us in this and will hear us, so that it is Yes, and not a No or any doubt. So we joyfully say Amen—that is, true and certain. Amen.

Read the original Latin

Vorrede vnd bereitunge zu bitten die sieben Bitt von Gott.

VAter vnser / der du bist im Himel.

Die meynung.

O Allmechtiger Gott / dieweil du durch deine grundlose Barmhertzigkeit / vns nicht allein zugelassen / sondern auch geboten vnd gelehret hast / durch deinen einigen lieben Sohn vnsern Herrn Jesum Christum / daß wir durch sein verdienst vnd Mittel / dich einen Vater achten vnd nennen sollen / So du doch billig nach aller Gerechtigkeit / ein gestrenger Richter seyn möchtest vber vns Sünder / die wir so viel vnd schwerlich wieder deinen Göttlichen allerbesten Willen gethan / vnd dich erzürnet haben.

So gib vns durch dieselbe Barmhertzigkeit / in vnser Hertz ein tröstliche Zuuersicht deiner Väterlichen liebe / vnd laß vns empfinden / den allerlieblichsten schmack vnd süssigkeit der Kindlichen sicherheit / daß wir mit frewden / dich einen Vater nennen / kennen / lieben vnd anruffen mügen in allen vnsern nöten / Behüt vns / daß wir deine Kinder bleiben / vnd nicht verschulden / damit wir aus dir / allerliebster Vater / einen erschrecklichen Richter / vnd vns selbs aus Kinder zu Feinden machen.

Du wilt auch / daß wir nicht allein Vater / sondern in gemein vnser Vater / dich anruffen / vnd also eintrechtiglich / für alle sampt bitten. Darumb gib vns eine eintrechtliche / Brüderliche liebe / daß wir vns alle sampt warhafftige Brüder vnnd Schwestern erkennen vnd achten / vnd dich einen gemeinen vnsern lieben Vater / für alle vnd jederman bitten / als ein Kind für das ander gegen seinem Vater thut.

Laß niemand vnter vns das seine suchen / oder des andern für dir vergessen / sondern abgethan allen Haß / Neid vnnd Zwietracht / vns als die wahren frommen Gottes Kinder / vntereinander lieben / vnd also eintrechtiglich sagen mügen / nicht mein Vater / sondern vnser Vater.

Auch dieweil du nicht ein Leiblicher Vater bist / der auff Erden ist / sondern der du im Himel bist / ein Geistlicher Vater / der nicht stirbt noch vngewiß ist / oder jhm selbs nicht helffen mag / wie der Irrdische vnd Leibliche Vater. Damit du vns anzeigest / wie vbermessig du ein besser Vater bist / vnd lehrest / zeitliche Vaterschafft / Vaterland / Freunde / Gut / Fleisch vnnd Blut / für dir verachten.

So gib vns / O Vater / daß wir auch deine Himlische Kinder seyn mügen / lehre vns / der Seelen vnd des Himlischen Erbtheils allein wahrnemen / daß vns das zeitliche Vaterland vnnd Irrdische Erbgut nicht betriege / vmbfange / hindere / vnnd gantz zu Irrdischen Kindern mache / daß wir mit rechtem wahrem grunde mügen sagen / O Himlischer Vater vnser / vnnd wir warhafftig deine Himlische Kinder seyn mügen.

Die Erste Bitt.

Geheiliget werde dein Name.

Die meynung.

OAllmechtiger Gott / lieber Himlischer Vater / dein heiliger Name wird auff diesem elenden Jamerthal / leider so mannigfeltig verunheiliget / verlestert vnd geschmehet / wird vielen dingen zugeeignet / da deine Ehre nicht an ist / wird auch in vielen stücken / vnd zu Sünden mißbraucht / daß auch das schendliche Leben / wol eine schande vnd vnehre deines heiligen Namens möcht heissen.

So gib vns deine Göttliche Gnade / daß wir vns für alle dem hüten / das nicht zu Ehre vnd Lob deines heiligen Namens reichet. Hilff / daß alle Zeuberey / vnd falsche Segen abgethan werden. Hilff / daß allerley beschweren des Teuffels oder Creaturen durch deinen Namen / auffhöre. Hilff / daß aller Mißglauben vnnd Aberglauben / außgewurtzelt werden. Hilff / daß alle Ketzerey / falsche Lehre / die sich im schein deines Namens dargeben / zu nicht werden. Hilff / daß aller falscher schein der Warheit / Frömigkeit / Heiligkeit / niemand betriegen.

Hilff / daß niemand bey deinem Namen schwere / liege oder triege. Behüte vns für allem falschen Trost / vnter deinem Namen ertichtet. Behüte vns für aller Geistlicher Hoffart vnd eiteler Ehre / zeitlichs Rhums oder Namens. Hilff / daß wir in allen vnsern nöthen vnd gebrechen / deinen heiligen Namen anruffen. Hilff / daß wir in der angst vnsers Gewissens / vnnd am letzten sterben deines Namens nicht vergessen. Hilff / daß wir in allen vnsern Gütern / Worten vnd Wercken / dich allein loben vnd ehren / nicht vns dauon einen Namen geben oder suchen / sondern dir alleine / des alle ding alleiue sind. Behüte vns für dem schendlichen Laster der Vndanckbarkeit.

Hilff / daß aus vnsern guten Wercken vnd Leben / alle andere gereitzet werden / nicht vns / sondern dich in vns zu loben / vnd deinen Namen ehren. Hilff / daß aus vnsern bösen Wercken oder Gebrechen niemand geergert werde / deinen Namen zu vnehren / oder dein Lob nachzulassen. Behüte vns / daß wir nichts begehren / weder zeitlich noch ewiglich / daß nicht deines Namens Ehre noch Lob sey / Vnd so wir solchs werden bitten / woltestu vnser Thorheit nicht erhören. Hilff / daß vnser Leben also sey / daß wir als warhafftige Kinder Gottes erfunden werden / daß dein Väterlicher Name nicht vmbsonst / oder fälschlich vber vns genennet werde / Amen.

Vnd in das Gebet gehören alle Psalmen vnd Gebet / da man Gott innen lobet / ehret / singet / dancket / vnd das gantze Alleluia.

Die Ander Bitt.

Zukomme dein Reich.

Die meynung.

DIß elend Leben ist ein Reich aller bößheit / darinnen ein Herr ist / der böse Geist / aller bößheit vnnd Sünde ein anfang vnd Heuptschalck.

Dein Reich aber ist ein Reich aller Gnaden vnd Tugend / darinne ein HERR ist Jesus Christus / dein lieber Sohn aller Gnaden vnd Tugend ein Heupt vnd Anfang.

Darumb hilff vnd gnade vns / lieber Vater. Gib vns für allen dingen einen rechten bestendigen Glauben an Christum / ein vnerschrockene Hoffnung in deine Barmhertzigkeit / wieder alle blödigkeit vnsers sündlichen Gewissens. Eine brünstige süsse Liebe zu dir / vnd allen Menschen. Behüte vns für Vnglauben vnd verzweifeln / vnd endlichem Neid.

Hilff vns von der vnfletigen lust der Vnkeuscheit / vnd gib vns eine Liebe zu der Jungfrawschafft vnd allerley Keuscheit. Hilff vns aus der Zwietracht / Krieg / Vnfried / vnnd laß zukommen deines Reichs Tugend / den Friede vnd einigkeit / vnnd stilles Leben. Hilff vns / daß nicht zorn oder ander bitterkeit in vns sein Reich vberkomme / sondern durch deine Gnade / in vns regiere einfeltige süssigkeit vnd Brüderliche trewe / vnd allerley Freundschafft / Mildigkeit / Sanfftmütigkeit. Hilff / daß nicht vnordige betrübnis vnnd schwermütigkeit in vns sey / sondern las zukomen die Frewd vnd Lust / in deiner Gnade vnd Barmhertzigkeit.

Vnnd endlich / daß alle Sünde von vns gewand werden / vnd wir deiner Gnaden / aller Tugend vnd guter Wercke vol / mügen dein Reich werden / daß alle vnser Hertz / Muth vnd Sinn / mit allen krefften inwendig vnd außwendig / dir nach deinen Geboten vnd Willen vntertheniglich dienen / vnnd sich allein von dir regieren lassen / nicht jhn selbs nach dem Fleisch / Welt oder Teuffel folgen.

Hilff / daß solch dein Reich angefangen in vns / zunehme / vnd täglich sich bessere vnd mehre. Daß vns nicht vberfalle die listige bößheit / die tragheit zu dem guten / auff daß wir nicht wieder zu rücke fallen. Sondern gib vns einen ernsten Fürsatz vnd vermügen / nicht allein anzuheben from zu seyn / sondern viel mehr kecklich darinnen fortgehen vnnd volnbringen. Wie der Prophet sagt: Erleuchte meine Augen / daß ich nicht entschlaffe oder faul werde im angefangen guten Leben / vnnd der Feind mein also wieder gewaltig werde.

Hilff / daß wir also bestendig bleiben / vnd daß dein zukünfftig Reich dieses angefangen dein Reich beschliesse vnd vollende. Hilff vns aus diesem sündlichen / fehrlichen Leben. Hilff vns jenes Leben begehren / vnd diesem feind werden. Hilff vns den Todt nicht fürchten / sondern begehren. Wende von vns die Liebe vnd anhangen dieses Lebens / auff daß also dein Reich in vns aller ding volnbracht werde.

Vnd in diese Bitt gehören alle Psalmen / Vers vnnd Gebet / da man Gnade vnd Tugend von Gott bittet.

Die Dritte Bitt.

Dein Wille geschehe / wie im Himel / also auch auff der Erden.

Die meynung.

VNser Wille gegen deinem Willen geachtet / ist nimmer gut / sondern allzeit böse. Dein Wille aber ist allezeit der beste / vberaus auff das höchste zu lieben vnnd zu begehren. Darumb erbarme dich vnser / O lieber Vater / vnd laß nicht nach vnserm Willen etwas geschehen. Gib vnd lehre vns recht gründlich Gedult haben / wenn vnser Wille gebrochen wird oder verhindert. Hilff / so jemand etwas redet / schweiget / thut oder lesst / das vnserm Willen wieder ist / daß wir nicht darumb zornig vnd böse werden / nicht fluchen / nicht klagen / nicht schreien / nicht richten / nicht verdammen / nicht wiedersprechen / etc. Hilff / daß wir vnsern Wiedersachern vnd Verhinderern vnsers Willens / demütiglichen weichen / vnd vnsern also fahren lassen / daß wir sie loben / segenen / wolthun / als denen / die deinen Göttlichen aller besten Willen wieder vnsern Willen volnbringen.

Gib vns Gnade / daß wir allerley Kranckheit / Armuth / Schmach / Leiden vnd Wiederwertigkeit / willig tragen / vnd erkennen / daß dasselbe dein Göttlicher Wille sey / vnsern Willen zu creutzigen. Hilff vns / daß wir auch vnrecht gerne leiden / vnd behüt vns für der Rach. Laß vns nicht böses mit bösem bezahlen / Gewalt mit Gewalt vertreiben. Sondern in solchem deinen Willen / der vns dasselbige zufügt / wolgefallen haben / dich loben vnd dir dancken. Laß vns nicht dem Teuffel oder bösen Menschen zu rechnen / wenn vns etwas wieder vnsern Willen begegnet / sondern allein deinem Göttlichen Willen / der solches alles ordent zu vnsers Willen hindernis / vnd zu mehrer Seligkeit in deinem Reich.

Hilff / daß wir willig vnd frölich sterben / vnd den Todt in deinem Willen / gerne auffnehmen / daß wir nicht mit Vngedult oder verzagung / dir vngehorsam werden. Hilff / daß alle vnser Glieder / Augen / Zungen / Hertzen / Hende vnd Füsse / nicht jhrer begierden / noch Willen gelassen werden / sondern in deinem Willen gefangen / gestöckt vnnd gebrochen werden. Behüte vns für allen bösen / spenstigen / hartmütigen / halßstarrigen / eigensinnigen vnnd eigen Willen.

Gib vns rechten Gehorsam / ein vollkomene ledige gelassenheit / in allen dingen / Geistlich / Weltlich / Zeitlich vnnd Ewiglich. Behüte vns für dem grawsamen Laster des nachredens / verleumbden / affterreden / freuel richten / verdammen / versprechen andere Menschen. O das grosse Vnglücke / vnnd die schwere plage solcher

Zungen / wende ferne von vns. Sondern lehre vns / daß / wenn wir etwas sehen oder hören / strefflich vnd vns mißfellig von andern / daß wir dasselbige schweigen / zudecken / dir allein klagen / vnd deinem willen heim geben / vnd also allen vnsern Schüldigern hertzlich vergeben / mitleiden mit jhn haben.

Lehre vns erkennen / daß vns niemand Schaden thun mag / er thu jhm denn selbs vorhin tausent mahl mehr Schaden für deinen Augen / auff daß wir dadurch mehr zu Barmhertzigkeit vber jhn / denn zu Zorn beweget werden / mehr sein zu jammern / denn zu rechen. Hilff vns / daß wir vns nicht frewen / wenn es vbel gehet denen die vnsern Willen nicht gethan / oder sonst mißfallen in jhrem Leben. Auch daß wir vns nicht betrüben / wenn es jhn wol gehet.

Vnd in diese Bitt gehören alle Psalmen / Vers vnd Gebet / da man wieder die Sünde vnd Feinde innen bittet.

Die Vierde Bitt.

Vnser tåglich Brod gib vns heute.

Die meynung.

DAs Brod / ist vnser HERR Jesus Christus / der die Seele speiset vnnd tröstet. Darumb / O lieber Himlischer Vater / gib Gnade / daß Christus Leben / Wort / Werck vnd Leiden / vns vnd aller Welt geprediget / bekand vnd behalten werde. Hilff / daß wir sein Wort vnd Werck in allem Leben / für ein krefftig Exempel vnd Spiegel aller Tugend haben. Hilff / daß wir in Leiden vnd Wiederwertigkeiten / vns durch vnd in seinem Leiden vnd Creutz / stercken vnnd trösten mügen. Hilff / daß wir vnsern Todt / durch seinen Todt / in festem Glauben vberwinden / vnd also kecklich dem lieben Fürgenger / in jenes Leben folgen.

Gib Gnade / daß alle Prediger dein Wort vnd Christum / in aller Welt / nützbarlich vnd seliglich predigen. Hilff / daß alle die dein Wort predigen hören / daß sie Christum erkennen lernen / vnd daran sich redlich bessern. Du woltest auch gnediglich / alle frembde Predige vnd Lehre / da Christus nicht erlernet wird / aus der heiligen Kirchen treiben. Erbarme dich aller Bischoffen / Priestern / Geistlichen / vnnd aller Oberkeit / daß sie durch deine Gnade erleuchtet / vns recht lehren vnnd führen / mit Worten vnd guten Exempeln. Behüte alle schwachgleubigen / daß sie sich nicht ergern / ob dem bösen Exempel der Oberkeit.

Behüte vns für Ketzerischen vnnd abtrünnigen Lehren / daß wir in einem täglichen Brod / in täglicher Lehre vnd Wort Christi eins bleiben. Lehre vns durch deine Gnade / Christus Leiden recht betrachten / hertzlich fassen / vnd seliglich in vnser Leben bilden. Laß vns des heiligen wahren Leichnams Christi in vnserm letzten Ende nicht beraubt werden. Hilff / daß alle Priester das Hochwirdige Sacrament / wirdiglich vnnd seliglich zu der gantzen Christenheit besserung handeln vnnd brauchen. Hilff / daß wir vnd alle Christen das heilige Sacrament zu seiner zeit mit Gnaden seliglich empfahen.

Gib vns einen seligen Friede vnd Einigkeit in allen Landen. Behüt vns für Krieg vnd Hader / vnd allem Vnfriede / auff daß wir des täglichen Brods vnnd Leiblicher Nahrung mit stiller ruge gebrauchen / zu deinem Lob. Gib allen Königen / Fürsten / Herrn / vnd Räthen / guten Verstand vnd trewen Willen seliglich vnnd friedlich jhr Vnterthan zu regieren. Behüt alle Vnterthan / für Auffruhr vnnd allem Vngehorsam.

Lehre vns durch deinen Geist / Göttlich Haußhalten / Kind vnd Gesind Christlich regieren zu deinem Dienst / Lob vnnd Ehre. Behüt vnser Kind vnd Gesind für Sünde vnnd Schande / für Fahr vnnd Schaden an Leib vnd Seele. Behüt die

Früchte auff dem Felde / vnd alles Viehe für Vngewitter / Gifft / wilden Thieren vnd allem Schaden etc.

Du woltest alle gefangene / hungerige / durstige / nackete / elende / Widwen / Waisen / krancke vnd betrübte Menschen / gnediglich trösten vnd erlassen.

In diese Bitt gehören alle Gebet oder Psalmen / da man für die Oberkeit bittet / sonderlich wieder die falschen Lehrer / für die Jüden / Ketzer vnd alle jrrige Menschen / auch für alle betrübte vnd trostlose / armen / dürfftige / leidende Menschen.

Die Fünffte Bitt.

Vnd verlaß vns vnsere schuld / als wir verlassen vnsern schüldigern.

Die meynung.

DIese Bitte hat einen anhang vnd eine beydingung / daß wir zuuor sollen vnsern Schüldigern vergeben / Wenn das geschehen ist / so mügen wir denn sagen: Vergib vns vnsere schülde. Vnd das ist oben in der dritten Bitte gebeten / daß Gottes Wille geschehe / der wil / daß man alles gedültig leiden sol / vnd nicht böß für böses geben / nicht rache suchen / sondern gut für böses geben. Als vnser Vater thut im Himel / der seine Sonne lesst auffgehen vber die frommen vnnd bösen / vnd lesst Regnen vber die jhm dancken vnd nicht dancken.

Darumb bitten wir / O Vater / tröste vns vnser Gewissen / jetzt vnd an vnserm letzten Ende / welches für vnsern Sünden vnnd deinem Gericht grewlich erschrickt / vnd erschrecken wird. Gib vnsern Hertzen deinen Friede / daß wir deines Gerichts mit frewden erwarten mügen. Gehe nicht mit vns in die scherffe deines Gerichts / denn da wird kein Mensch Rechtfertig erfunden. Lehre vns / lieber Vater / nicht auff vnsere gute Werck oder Verdienst vns verlassen oder trösten / sondern alleine auff deine grundlose Barmhertzigkeit / lauter vnd fest vns wagen vnd ergeben. Desselbigen gleichen / laß vns auch nicht verzagen / vmb vnsers strefflichen sündigen Lebens willen / sondern deine Barmhertzigkeit höher / breiter / stercker achten / denn alle vnser Leben.

Hilff allen Menschen / die in Todes nöthen vnd in der anfechtung solcher verzweiffelung sind / vnd sonderlich dem N. oder dem N. Vergib jhnen vnd vns / alle vnsere Schülde / tröste sie / vnd nim sie zu Gnaden.

Gib vns deine Güte für vnser bößheit / wie du vns geboten hast zu thun. Stille den grawsamen Affterreder / Anklager vnd Großmacher vnser Sünde / den bösen Geist / jetzt vnd an vnserm Ende / vnnd in allen engsten des Gewissens / dieweil wir auch des affterredens vnd der Menschen Sünde groß zu machen vns enthalten. Richte vns nicht nach anklagen des Teuffels vnd vnsers elenden Gewissen / vnd erhöre nicht die Stimme vnser Feinde / die vns Tag vnd Nacht für dir schüldigen / gleich als wir nicht hören wollen die Affterreder vnd Verkläger der andern.

Nim von vns die schwere Last aller Sünde vnd Gewissen / auff daß wir mit leichtem / frölichem / hertzlichem Gewissen / in gantzer Zuuersicht deiner Barmhertzigkeit / leben vnd sierben / alles leiden vnnd thun mügen.

Vnd in diese Bitt gehören alle Psalmen vnnd Gebet / die vmb Sünde die Barmhertzigkeit Gottes anruffen.

Die Sechste Bitt.

Vnd führe vns nicht in Versuchung.

Die meynung.

DRey Versuchung oder Anfechtung haben wir / das Fleisch / die Welt / den Teuffel. Darumb bitten wir / lieber Vater / gib vns Gnade / daß wir des Fleisches lust zwingen. Hilff / daß wir seinem vbrigen essen vnd trincken / schlaffen / faullentzen / müssiggang widerstreben. Hilff / daß wir dasselbe mit fasten / messigem Futter / Kleider / Lager / wachen / arbeiten / dienstbar vnd zu guten Wercken geschickt machen. Hilff vns / daß wir seine böse neigung zur Vnkeuscheit / vnd alle seine begierde vnd reitzen / mügen mit Christo ans Creutz schlagen vnnd tödten / daß wir keiner seiner Anfechtung bewilligen oder folgen. Hilff / so wir sehen ein schön Mensch / Bilde oder andere Creaturen / daß das nicht ein Anfechtung / sondern vns eine vrsach sey / Keuscheit zu lieben / vnnd dich in deinen Creaturen zu loben. Hilff / so wir etwas süsses hören / etwas lieblichs empfinden / daß nicht darinnen Lust / sondern dein Lob vnd Ehre gesucht werde von vns.

Behüte vns für dem grossen Laster des Geitzes vnnd begierden der Reichthümer dieser Welt. Behüte vns / daß wir nicht die Ehre vnnd Gewalt dieser Welt suchen / oder in dieselbe neigung verwilligen. Behüte vns / daß wir nicht von den bösen vnd Widerwertigkeiten der Welt zu Vngedult / Rache / Zorn oder andere Vntugend / gezogen werden. Hilff / daß wir der Welt liegen / triegen / verheissen / vntrewe / vnd allem jhrem Gut vnd bösen absagen / versachen / (wie wir denn in der Tauffe geredt haben) vnd darinne fest bestehen / vnd täglich mehr vnd mehr zunehmen.

Behüte vns für des Teuffels eingeben / daß wir nicht in Hoffart vnnd vnser eigen wolgefallen / vnd anderer verachtung bewilligen / vmb Reichthumb / Adel / Gewalt / Kunst / Gestalt / oder anderer deiner Güter willen. Behüte vns / daß wir nicht in Haß vnd Neid fallen / aus jrgend einer vrsachen. Behüte vns / daß wir nicht folgen der Anfechtung des Glaubens / der Verzweiffelung / jetzt vnd an vnserm letzten Ende.

Laß dir befohlen seyn Himlischer Vater / alle / die wieder die grosse mannigfeltige anfechtung streiten vnnd arbeiten / Stercke die da noch stehen / hilff wieder auff denen / die gefallen sind / vnd ligen danieder. Vnd gib vns allen deine Gnade / daß wir in solchem elenden vnsichern Leben / mit so viel Feinden ohn vnterlaß vmbgeben / mit einem Ritterlichen festen Glauben bestendiglichen fechten / vnd die ewige Kron erlangen.

Die Siebende Bitt.

Sondern erlöse vns von dem Vbel.

Die meynung.

DIese Bitte bittet für alles böse der Pein vnd Straffe / wie denn die heilige Kirche thut in den Litanien. Erlöse vns / O Vater von deinem ewigen Zorn vnd der Hellischen pein. Erlöse vns von deinem gestrengen Vrtheil / im Tod vnd am Jüngsten Tage. Erlöse vns von dem schnellen gehenden Todt. Behüte vns für Wasser vnnd Fewr / für Blitzen vnd Hagel. Behüte vns für hunger vnd thewren zeiten. Behüte vns für Kriegen vnd Blutuergiessen. Behüte vns für deinen grossen plagen / für Pestilentz / Frantzosen / vnd anderen schweren Kranckheiten.

Behüte vns für allem vbel vnd nöten des Leibes / so doch / daß in diesem allen / deines Namens Ehre / deines Reiches mehrunge / vnnd Göttlicher Wille sey.

AMEN.

Hilff Gott / daß alle diese Bitt wir vngezweiffelt erlangen / vnd laß vns nicht daran zweiffeln / du hast vnnd wirst vns hierinne erhören / daß es Ja / vnd nicht ein Nein oder Zweiffel sey. So sprechen wir frölich Amen / das ist wahr vnd gewiß / AMEN.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  2. ↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  3. ↩John.3.16;Matt.3.17 — For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life. Matt.3.17 — And behold, a voice from the heavens said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'
  4. ↩1Cor.10.24;Phil.2.4 — Let no one seek his own good, but the good of the other. Phil.2.4 — Let each of you look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
  5. ↩John.1.12;Rom.8.16;1John.3.1 — But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God—to those who believed in his name. Rom.8.16 — The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 1John.3.1 — See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. For this reason the world does not know us: it did not know him.
  6. ↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  7. ↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  8. ↩Matt.16.17;John.1.13;Gal.1.16 — But Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven." John.1.13 — who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Gal.1.16 — to reveal his Son in me, so that I might proclaim him among the nations; immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,
  9. ↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  10. ↩Matt.5.16 — In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in the heavens.
  11. ↩John.1.12;Rom.8.14-Rom.8.16;1John.3.1 — But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God—to those who believed in his name. Rom.8.14 — For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Rom.8.15 — For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry, "Abba, Father." Rom.8.16 — The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 1John.3.1 — See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. For this reason the world does not know us: it did not know him.
  12. ↩Exod.20.7;Deut.28.10;Jer.14.9 — You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who takes His name in vain. Deut.28.10 — And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the LORD is called upon you, and they will fear you. Jer.14.9 — Why should you be like a man stunned, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you are in our midst, O LORD, and your name is called upon us; do not abandon us.
  13. ↩Matt.6.10;Luke.11.2 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  14. ↩Matt.6.10;Luke.11.2 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  15. ↩Deut.6.5;Matt.22.37;Mark.12.30 — And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Matt.22.37 — And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' Mark.12.30 — And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
  16. ↩Gal.5.16-Gal.5.17;1John.2.15-1John.2.16;Eph.6.11-Eph.6.12 — But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desire of the flesh. Gal.5.17 — For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do the things you wish. 1John.2.15 — Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1John.2.16 — For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world. Eph.6.11 — Put on the full armor of God, so that you are able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Eph.6.12 — For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
  17. ↩Phil.1.23;Col.3.1-Col.3.2;1John.2.15 — But I am hard-pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better; Col.3.1 — If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col.3.2 — Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth. 1John.2.15 — Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
  18. ↩Phil.1.21-Phil.1.23 — For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Phil.1.22 — But if living in the flesh means fruitful labor for me, then what I shall choose I do not know. Phil.1.23 — But I am hard-pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better;
  19. ↩1John.2.15;Matt.6.24 — Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Matt.6.24 — No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  20. ↩Matt.6.10;Luke.11.2 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."
  21. ↩Matt.7.1;Luke.6.37 — Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. Luke.6.37 — Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
  22. ↩Matt.5.44;Luke.6.27-Luke.6.28 — But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Luke.6.27 — But I say to you who are listening: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. Luke.6.28 — Bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat you.
  23. ↩Gal.5.24 — And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  24. ↩Matt.5.39;1Pet.2.19-1Pet.2.20 — But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 1Pet.2.19 — For this is commendable: if because of conscience toward God someone endures suffering unjustly. 1Pet.2.20 — For what credit is it if you sin and are beaten, and endure it? But if you do good and suffer, and endure it, this is grace before God.
  25. ↩Rom.12.17;1Thess.5.15;1Pet.3.9 — Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is good in the sight of all people. 1Thess.5.15 — See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always pursue what is good, both toward one another and toward all. 1Pet.3.9 — Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult; but on the contrary, bless, because for this you were called, so that you may inherit a blessing.
  26. ↩Matt.6.11;Luke.11.3 — Give us today our daily bread. Luke.11.3 — Give us each day our daily bread.
  27. ↩Jas.1.27 — Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
  28. ↩1Tim.2.1-1Tim.2.2 — I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people. 1Tim.2.2 — for kings and all who hold high office, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and dignity." "Hold high office" is clearer than "are in high positions," and "so that" strengthens the purpose clause.
  29. ↩Matt.6.12;Luke.11.4 — And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
  30. ↩Matt.6.13;Luke.11.4 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
  31. ↩Matt.6.13;Luke.11.4 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
  32. ↩1John.2.16 — For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  33. ↩Gal.5.24 — And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  34. ↩1Tim.6.9-1Tim.6.10;Matt.6.19-Matt.6.21 — But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction. 1Tim.6.10 — For the root of all evils is the love of money, which some, reaching for it, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. Matt.6.19 — Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. Matt.6.20 — But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal. Matt.6.21 — For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  35. ↩Matt.6.13;Luke.11.4 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
  36. ↩Matt.6.13;Luke.11.4 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
  37. ↩Matt.6.9-Matt.6.13;Luke.11.2-Luke.11.4 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Matt.6.10 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matt.6.11 — Give us today our daily bread. Matt.6.12 — And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matt.6.13 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come." Luke.11.3 — Give us each day our daily bread. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩für dir may mean 'before you' (in your sight/preference) or 'for your sake'; the rendering keeps the ranking-before-God sense without inventing a stronger contrast.
  2. 2 ↩falsche Segen: in early modern German devotional usage, often covers superstitious charms and pretended blessings as well as false benedictions.
  3. 3 ↩beschweren may mean conjurings/adjurations (near beschwören) or burdens/afflictions (Beschwerden). Surrounding petitions against sorcery, false blessings, and misuse of the Name favor the conjuring sense; the alternate would be: 'every kind of affliction from the devil or from creatures may cease through your Name.'
  4. 4 ↩Source reads 'alleiue' at the close; translated as 'alleine' ('alone'), the obvious Early New High German form in 'des alle ding alleine sind'.
  5. 5 ↩geergert (geärgert) is rendered as 'led into offense' (scandalized); early modern sense is causing others to stumble, not mere annoyance.
  6. 6 ↩daß nicht deines Namens Ehre noch Lob sey is a double negative construction: desire nothing that is not for the honor or praise of your name. woltestu ... nicht erhören is a solemn subjunctive petition ('would you not hear').
  7. 7 ↩vber vns genennet (named over us) keeps the biblical idiom of God's name being called upon a people, not merely spoken about them.
  8. 8 ↩Heuptschalck (Hauptschalk): Early New High German for the chief knave/rogue; rendered as 'chief villain' for the devil as principal author of evil.
  9. 9 ↩Early NHG Blödigkeit means faint-heartedness, timidity, or weakness of spirit, not modern 'stupidity'.
  10. 10 ↩brünstig here is spiritual fervor/ardor, not erotic heat.
  11. 11 ↩endlichem is taken as 'final/ultimate' (envy as a decisive, damning vice). Less likely: 'temporal/this-worldly' envy (endlich vs. ewig).
  12. 12 ↩deines Reichs Tugend is read as the kingdom's virtues (peace, unity, quiet life) granted as gift; Friede/einigkeit/stilles Leben are treated as that virtue's content, not a separate unrelated list.
  13. 13 ↩sein Reich vberkomme: taken as anger/bitterness establishing its own reign in us (not 'His kingdom' as God's). regiere is optative/petitionary.
  14. 14 ↩einfeltige süssigkeit: Luther's einfältig as guileless/simple-hearted, not foolish; rendered 'simple sweetness'.
  15. 15 ↩Lust here is positive delight/gladness in grace (contrast vnfletigen lust in s1). vnordige betrübnis = disordered/undue grief, not every sorrow.
  16. 16 ↩ENHG 'Muth' (with Hertz and Sinn) is rendered 'spirit' as the middle term of the inner triad heart–spirit–mind; it can also shade toward disposition or courage of heart.
  17. 17 ↩'dein Reich werden' is kept as 'become your kingdom' (not merely 'enter' it): the petition is that grace make us the place where God's reign is present.
  18. 18 ↩listige bößheit / die tragheit zu dem guten may be read as two parallel threats (cunning wickedness and sluggishness toward the good) or as apposition (cunning wickedness, namely sluggishness toward the good). Rendered as parallel subjects; the sense is nearly the same either way.
  19. 19 ↩from = fromm (godly/devout). kecklich = boldly, stoutly, with confident courage; not flippant boldness.
  20. 20 ↩Early NHG 'beschliesse vnd vollende' pairs 'bring to a close' with 'bring to completion': the future kingdom crowns and perfects the kingdom already begun in us, rather than merely ending it.
  21. 21 ↩'fehrlichen' = Early NHG gefährlichen (dangerous/perilous), not 'fernen' (distant).
  22. 22 ↩'anhangen' = attachment/clinging (to this life), not merely fondness; rendered as 'clinging' to keep the disordered-attachment sense.
  23. 23 ↩lesst = lässt: leave undone / omit, paired with thut (does); again / wieder = wider, 'against'.
  24. 24 ↩vnsern also fahren lassen: 'so let ours go'—ours = our will; fahren lassen = abandon / let go.
  25. 25 ↩zu rechnen can mean attribute/charge/blame; rendered as 'blame' for natural prayer cadence while keeping the causal attribution sense.
  26. 26 ↩Early New High German stöcken/gestöckt: put in the stocks, confined, or fixed fast. Rendered as 'shackled' to keep the restraint image alongside gefangen (captive) and gebrochen (broken).
  27. 27 ↩Taken as a form related to widerspenstig/spänstig: refractory, rebellious, wayward — fitting this catalogue of will-defects rather than a ghostly/spectral sense.
  28. 28 ↩ledige gelassenheit: Early modern mystical term for free, unencumbered releasement/surrender of self-will; rendered as 'free surrender' rather than bare 'detachment' to keep the prayerful force.
  29. 29 ↩versprechen here is the speech-sin sense (revile/speak against), not 'promise'; fits the catalogue of tongue-vices (nachreden, verleumden, afterreden, frevel richten, verdammen).
  30. 30 ↩Early NHG strefflich (sträflich) = reprehensible/blameworthy, not merely ‘offensive’; mißfellig = displeasing to us. heim geben = entrust/commit into someone’s keeping (here God’s will).
  31. 31 ↩Early New High German wieder here is taken as wider, 'against' (not modern wieder, 'again'). innen is taken as 'within/inwardly' (interior spiritual enemies), not as a dative of persons.
  32. 32 ↩Early modern 'kecklich' means boldly/confidently, not recklessly; 'Fürgenger' is forerunner/pioneer, a Christ title.
  33. 33 ↩seliglich retains salvific force (unto blessedness/salvation), not mere cheerfulness; nützbarlich is 'usefully/profitably,' not 'entertainingly.'
  34. 34 ↩frembde Predige und Lehre: 'alien/foreign' preaching and teaching—doctrine not centered on Christ, not merely non-local preaching.
  35. 35 ↩Oberkeit covers spiritual and temporal governing authority; rendered 'all in authority' to keep the breadth without modern political narrowing.
  36. 36 ↩sich ergern is scandal/offense (stumbling), not mere annoyance; schwachgleubigen are the weak in faith.
  37. 37 ↩"täglichen Brod" continues the Lord's Prayer petition for daily bread, here spiritualized as shared daily teaching of Christ.
  38. 38 ↩"Leichnam Christi" is the corporeal Body of Christ in the Sacrament (not a mere corpse metaphor); kept as Body of Christ for Eucharistic specificity.
  39. 39 ↩"seliglich" can mean blessedly or unto salvation/blessedness; rendered as "unto our blessing" to keep the salvific force without archaic diction.
  40. 40 ↩stiller ruge = quiet rest/peace (Ruhe); rendered as 'quiet peace' to keep the calm enjoyment of provision, not mere idleness.
  41. 41 ↩seliglich can mean 'blessedly' or 'to a saving/good end'; rendered 'blessedly' to keep the spiritual force without archaic 'wholesomely'.
  42. 42 ↩Early modern 'Fahr' = Gefahr (danger/peril); 'für' here means 'from/against' (protective vor).
  43. 43 ↩Source sentence is truncated mid-phrase ('Behüt die'); neighboring next section continues with field fruits, livestock, and protection from storm, poison, wild beasts, and harm.
  44. 44 ↩Continues the petition begun in the previous section with 'Behüt die' ('Protect the…'); 'für' here means protection from/against the listed dangers.
  45. 45 ↩Early NHG erlassen here means release/deliver (especially for captives) rather than remit a debt; rendered as deliver to cover both liberation and relief.
  46. 46 ↩Early modern 'wieder' here is 'wider' (against), not 'again': sonderlich wieder die falschen Lehrer = especially against false teachers.
  47. 47 ↩Early New High German beydingung = Bedingung, 'condition'; anhang = addition/appendix (a rider attached to the petition).
  48. 48 ↩Luther's phrasing pairs frommen/bösen with those who thank / do not thank God, a slightly freer expansion of Matthew 5:45's just/unjust pair; rendered closely to the German rather than collapsed into the more familiar English biblical cadence.
  49. 49 ↩scherffe deines Gerichts: rendered as severity of judgment (rigor/strictness), not mere sharpness as a metaphor.
  50. 50 ↩grundlose Barmhertzigkeit: rendered bottomless mercy (unfathomable/immeasurable), preserving Luther's spatial image of depth rather than a flat 'infinite'.
  51. 51 ↩strefflichen: Early New High German for sträflichen—blameworthy/reprehensible, not merely 'punished'.
  52. 52 ↩Anfechtung is rendered as spiritual assault/trial (here of despair), not merely generic temptation. N. is the prayer-book placeholder for a named person.
  53. 53 ↩Second name-slot alternative (N. = insert a name), continuing the intercession formula from s1.
  54. 54 ↩für can mean in place of, in return for, or on account of; the sense is reciprocal kindness for evil, matching the Lord's Prayer forgiveness pattern and the command to do likewise.
  55. 55 ↩Affterreder is older German for a backbiter/slanderer (one who speaks ill behind another's back); Großmacher is one who magnifies or makes much of sins.
  56. 56 ↩Source surface 'sierben' is read as Early Modern German 'sterben' (die), the expected pair with 'leben'; the normalized text retains the printed form.
  57. 57 ↩Anfechtung is the classic Lutheran term for spiritual trial or assault, broader than mere temptation (Versuchung); both are retained here as a pair.
  58. 58 ↩vbrigen (übrigen) can mean 'remaining/further' or 'superfluous/excessive.' Rendered as the flesh's further excesses after lust: overindulgence in food, drink, sleep, laziness, and idleness.
  59. 59 ↩Lager is sleeping place/bedding; messigem Futter is moderate food (literally 'fodder,' plain fare). The list names the means by which the flesh is disciplined and made fit for good works.
  60. 60 ↩„den bösen“ is taken as substantive „evils“ paired with „Widerwertigkeiten“ (adversities/afflictions), not as an incomplete adjective needing a further noun.
  61. 61 ↩„absagen / versachen“ is baptismal renunciation language (forswear/renounce), not a generic “say no.” The parenthetical points back to the baptismal vow.
  62. 62 ↩„verheissen“ is rendered as the world’s empty/false promising rather than divine promise, given the surrounding vices (lying, deceiving, unfaithfulness).
  63. 63 ↩Anfechtung des Glaubens: rendered as temptation against the faith (spiritual assault on belief), in parallel with Verzweifelung (despair). Anfechtung is the Lutheran term for trial/temptation/assault.
  64. 64 ↩Early NHG 'schnellen gehenden Todt' is the traditional litany sense of a sudden, unprepared death (Lat. mors subitanea), not merely a quick death as a medical fact.
  65. 65 ↩'thewren zeiten' (teuren Zeiten) means times when food and necessities are dearly expensive—scarcity or famine years, not merely 'expensive times' in a general economic sense.
  66. 66 ↩'Frantzosen' is the early modern German name for syphilis (morbus Gallicus, the 'French disease'), not the French people.

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