# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1857_S377
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The Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library. 377

munity spirit in its evidences (churchly letters, synods, care of the poor, collections, missions to the heathen, church discipline). The second part comprises the archaeology of churchly worship, and treats accordingly: 1. of the churchly places (church buildings, style of building, arrangement, consecration, ornament: images, sign of the cross, bells, etc.); 2. of the churchly seasons; 3. of the churchly acts (singing, reading, preaching, prayer, baptism, the Lord's Supper). An appendix treats further of the usage of the ancient church at marriage and at death. This writing of Dr. Guericke's too is distinguished by richness of material with great compactness, by an excellent selection (answering precisely to the needs and wishes of a Lutheran), by suitable arrangement, and by clarity of survey. The verbatim citations given throughout from the sources of Christian antiquity (the apostolic fathers, Justin, Hegesippus, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen and other church fathers, acts of councils, and the like) take the place of a whole library and give archaeological insight a firm and certain foundation. Especially here, where so great a lack of books prevails, every Lutheran pastor ought therefore, as regards Christian antiquities, to be provided at least with this writing, which gives all that is most necessary. It comprises about 350 pages in 8vo. —

One archaeological need, however, is not met by Guericke's work, namely the need for a biblical antiquities. The most serviceable and most reliable work treating this discipline more briefly alongside churchly archaeology is: J. Andreae Quenstedii Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae. Wittebergae, 1699.“ 4to. The author is the famous dogmatician of this name, Calov's father-in-law and nephew of the famous Johann Gerhard (a son of the latter's sister), and related to him according to the spirit as well as according to the flesh. He was born in 1617 at Quedlinburg, studied under Calixt and Hornejus at Helmstedt, where he already habilitated as Magister legens in 1643, but turned in the following year to Wittenberg, where he later became professor of theology, provost at the castle church, consistorial councillor, etc., and in 1688 fell blessedly asleep in the Lord. All accounts of Quenstedt agree in this, that he was an exceedingly humble and godly theologian. Of his deep theological knowledge, thorough learning, outstanding acuteness, and untiring diligence his surviving works bear witness. Besides his „Theologia didactico-polemica“ *) his

*) This work is the fuller elaboration of lectures he had delivered on dogmatics. A Swedish student who studied at Wittenberg in Quenstedt's time had the manuscript of those lectures copied out for himself and, after his return, had it printed in Sweden under his own name. This brought the young „scholar“ no small fame. But when Quenstedt some years later himself put the lectures into print and the work became known in Sweden too, no one would believe that Quenstedt had plowed with the student's heifer; and so the latter's fame, purchased to be sure with only a few thalers of copying fees, turned into so much the greater disgrace and shame.