VAE NOBIS, VAE NOBIS ! Ewiges Ach und Weh ! Das ist: Gründliche und weitläuffige Erklärung deß schröcklichen Artickels von der Ewigen Höllen-Pein in neun und dreyssig Predigten, auß sonderbare Biblischen Texten also abgehandelt, daß jede Predigt mit einem lieblichen Exordio gezieret, mit nothwendiger Paraphrasi vnd Außlegung deß Texts erläutert, mit schriftmässigem Loco Communi und HauptLehr erkläret, und mit denen darzu gehörigen Usibus und Gebrauch, zur Lehr und GegenLehr, Vermahn und Warnung, Erinnerung vnd Trost außgeführet wird.
Ulm: Christian Balthasar, 1668. [20], 745p, [49]. Contemporary calf with boards ruled in blind. George Albrecht (1602-1647) was a Lutheran theologian. See Joecher column 221. A collection of his sermons first published in 1642 and reprinted in 1648, 1654 and 1660. Sermons includes on worst times of the 30 Years War and he also brings up the eruption of Vesuvius, Michaelangelo and much else. Its interesting that on page 683-684 he complains that parishioners are not listening or following his sermons. But, as he writes, "if people don't want to listen to them or follow them, then they will have a much more terrible fate at the Last Judgment, then in other places". From the Library of the evangelical theologian Emil Korner (1856-1940) with his bookplate on the inside front board. Not in Ebert. Konig "Bibliotheca Vetus et Nova" p22. May have had a frontispiece. Boards a little rubbed and headband worn. Internally clean. Item #10289
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