# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1857_S241
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.   241

Bavaria. Stuttgart, at S. G. Liesching. 1848." Both in usefulness and serviceableness and in beauty, the faithful Pastor Müller and the renowned publishing house have vied with one another to furnish something excellent, in which our Church may rejoice as in an ornament. At the head stands a historical-theological introduction to the symbolical writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, rich in content for all its compressed brevity, prefaced by a listing of the pertinent literature that gives evidence of good acquaintance with it, and with the history of the Saxon Visitation Articles and a review of the earlier Corpora doctrinae appended (CXVI pages). Then follow all the symbols of our Church in German and Latin, both texts running parallel in two columns on a single page. The text is given throughout according to the oldest and authentic editions of the Book of Concord; even the form of language has not been altered in the least. In the margin, figures indicate the corresponding pages of the Rechenberg and the Walch editions. The division into paragraphs by periods, first employed by Hase and affording many advantages, is retained here as well. The appendices consist of: 1. the subscriptions; 2. the Catalogus testimoniorum; 3. the marriage and baptismal booklets and the Admonition concerning Confession; 4. the Visitation Articles; 5. the mandate of Elector Christian II; 6. an exceedingly exact and most valuable register of the variant readings; 7. a reprint, given with diplomatic accuracy, of the editio princeps of the Augustana; 8. an indication of those passages at which the text of the Book of Concord appears to require correction; for the conscientious editor has, as is right, "not held himself as an individual to be authorized to make alterations in the ecclesiastically received text according to his own, however conscientious, yet always merely subjective conviction"; 9. a register of the passages of Scripture cited; 10. an indication of the cited passages from ecclesiastical and profane writers, conciliar decrees, and canonical statutes; 11. a register of the obsolete German words and the proverbial expressions found in the Book of Concord; 12. a table of contents according to the several parts; 13. the old register of the chief articles of Christian doctrine treated in the Concordia, in Latin and German; 14. a complete German index of subjects and names. — We have described this edition at such length on purpose, in order to give our esteemed readers a desire to acquire this excellent book, since it is plainly of great importance for a preacher to have of the collection of the symbols in particular an edition that is reliable and facilitates its use.*) — The next best editions giving the text in German and Latin are: "Christ-

*) One thing only do we miss, namely that portion of Luther's sermon to which the Formula of Concord refers in the article on Christ's descent into hell. Pipping appended that portion to his edition. Perhaps Pastor Müller may find occasion, in a second edition, to include this portion as well