A General History of the Sabbatarian Churches: Embracing Accounts of the Armenian, East Indian, and Abyssinian Episcopacies in Asia and Africa, the Waldenses, Semi-Judaisers, and Sabbatarian Anabaptists of Europe; with the Seventh-day Baptist Denominaton in the United StatesDavis, Tamar
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A General History of the Sabbatarian Churches: Embracing Accounts of the Armenian, East Indian, and Abyssinian Episcopacies in Asia and Africa, the Waldenses, Semi-Judaisers, and Sabbatarian Anabaptists of Europe; with the Seventh-day Baptist Denominaton in the United States
Davis, Tamar
Sabbatarians -- History
The sheets of paper employed for this purpose were manufactured at their
own mill, and some being put into frames, admonish the residents, as
well as the casual visiter, whichever way they may turn their heads. Two
very curious ones still remain in the chapel attached to Saron. One
represents the straight and narrow way, which it would be difficult to
describe. It is very curiously and ingeniously formed on a sheet of
about three feet square, the whole of the road being filled with texts
of Scripture, reminding the disciples of their duties, and the
obligations their profession imposes upon them.
Another is a representation of the three heavens. In the first, Christ,
the Good Shepherd, is represented as calling his flock together; in the
second, which is one foot in height, and three feet wide, three hundred
figures in the Capuchin dress appear with harps in their hands, and
behind them the heads of an innumerable host; in the third is seen the
throne of glory surrounded by two hundred archangels. Many of these
"Fractur schrifften" express the most enthusiastic sentiments on the
subject of celibacy, and the happiness of a recluse life, whilst others
are devotional pieces. The following are transcribed from two found in
the chapel of the sister's convent:
Die Lieb ist unsre Kron und heller Tugend Spiegel,
Die Weisheit unsre Lust, und reines Gottes Siegel;
Das Lamm ist unsre Schatz dem wir uns anvertrans,
Und folgen seinem Gang als reinste Jungfrauen.
Love is our Crown and clear mirror of virtue,
Wisdom our desire, and the seal of a pure God;
The Lamb is our treasure, in whom we confide,
And follow His guidance, as the purest virgins.
* * * * *
Unsre Kronen die wir tragen hier in dieser Sterblichkeit,
Werden uns in Truebsals-tagen durch, viel Leiden zubereit,
Da muss unsre Hoffnung bluehen und der Glanbe wachsen auf.
Waun sich Welt und Fleisch bemuehen uns zu schwaechen in dem Sauf,
O Wol dan! weil wir gezaehlet, zu der reinen Laemmer Heerd
Die dem keuschen Lam vermachlet, und erkanffet von der Erd,
Bleibet schon alhir verborgen, unser Ehren Schmuck und Kron,
Wird uns doch ad Jenem Morgen kroenen, Jesus Gotte's Sohn.
The Crowns which we wear here in our mortal life,
Will prepare us this much suffering for the day of trial—
Then must our hope bloom, and our faith increase,
While the world and the flesh both strive to divert us from our course.
While then, we are atoned for through the Holy Shepherd,
Who marries the pure lamb and redeems it from the earth,
Let our honour, our ornaments, our crown even remain concealed,
Till that morning when we shall be crowned by Jesus the Son of God.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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