# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1857_S311
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.   311

Cyprian, Gotha 1717 and 1718." 2 parts in octavo. — Provision has moreover been made also for those who are not versed in the Latin language in which Seckendorf's work is written; the latter has, namely, been translated into German by Elias Frick, pastor and professor at Ulm, and appeared in the year 1714 in large quarto at Leipzig under the following title: "Hrn. V. L. v. Seckendorf Ausführliche Historie des Lutherthums." (Over 1400 pages.) Frick has indeed left out a good deal (among other things Maimbourg's text), brought a good deal into another order and added not a little; yet nothing essential is lacking; the order, however, may well itself be better, since Seckendorf intended to follow his opponent step by step, which Frick had no need to do; and finally all additions are marked with brackets. — In many a respect, however, the following work is still to be preferred to Frick's translation: "Christ. Friedr. Junii Compendium Seckendorfianum, or Concise History of the Reformation from Seckendorf's Historia Lutheranismi; edited by Benj. Lindner. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1755." 2 volumes in octavo. The plan for this work was formed by the godly ducal Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld councillor of the court, Junius. When he too withdrew from public life in advanced age, he was intent on serving his dear fellow Christians still further by working out a new abridgment of Seckendorf's Commentarius. The editor relates of him: "He began such work under much heartfelt prayer and supplication, with a pure intention, solely for the glorifying of the majestic name and kingdom of JESUS and for the edification of evangelical Christians, confidently in faith, and the LORD granted him life and strength to bring it for the most part to an end, up to a further necessary revision." To undertake this revision himself, however, death prevented him. Yet on his deathbed he took care that the work begun in the LORD's name should not be left lying: first by a considerable legacy to make the printing possible and so that it might be let go to the poor at the lowest possible price, and by declaring it his last will that his friend Benj. Lindner, court preacher and superintendent at Saalfeld, the well-known editor of the whole of Luther's writings in abridgment, should lay his hand to the "Compendium." The dear Lindner did indeed go to the work with joy, but it was not granted to him either to complete the book. After he had worked out the first part (1517–1530) and furnished it with a preface, and had advanced in the working out of the second as far as the account of Luther's illness at Schmalkalden (1537), he too died (on the 24th of December 1754) and made over the final completion to his adjunct in the affairs of the ephorate, Pastor Gottlob Emanuel Gründler at Graba, through whose diligence it then became possible that the second part also appeared still in the year 1755. In this Compendium there is not only the whole kernel of Secken-