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Born in 1582, by his mid-thirties Johann Gerhard was regarded as Germany’s greatest living Protestant theologian. He established the tradition of Lutheran scholasticism and wrote some of the period’s most popular and influential devotional literature. He wrote these Sacred Meditations when he was only 22. In his introduction, Charles Albert remarks that Sacred Meditations, “… gained and...

11:28); so also do we celebrate our paschal supper by faith. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us (1 Cor. 5:7); whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed (John 6:65). By faith the Israelites passed through the Red Sea (Heb. 11:29); so by faith do we pass through the troublous waves of this world. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down (Heb. 11:30); so by faith may we lay low all the strongholds of Satan (2 Cor. 10:5). By faith Rahab was preserved alive (Heb. 11:31); so in the
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