Historical-Political Dissertation on Coins, Both Functional and Commemorative

they have of his love, gentleness, humility, friendliness, temperance, chastity, contentment, and truth. If not, then he will one day say to us: I do not know you Matt. VII, 23. XXV, 12. Oh my Lord JESUS, impress such an image of yourself upon my heart, so that it may have value in Heaven! If you also, my most beloved Tilger, observe this very thing piously, as is fitting, then you shall be called a coin of the best quality, ringing tone, and value, indeed the most welcome coin of the heavenly High Treasurer himself, consecrated to his divine glory and to the benefits of the Church, and more precious and excellent than any treasure to your most loving Parents, who are greatly concerned for your salvation, to whom this symbol might be inscribed: With the Triune protecting me! Nay, more, let it not shame any one of us to confess and groan: I am God's coin; I have wandered from the treasury: have mercy on me, O Lord! We should diligently ponder that saying of St. Augustine, from the place cited before: We are the coin of God; we have wandered as a coin from the treasury; that which had been impressed upon us was worn away by error; He who had formed it comes to reform it. He also seeks his own coin, just as Caesar seeks his own; therefore he says: render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's: to Caesar the coins, to God yourselves; then, therefore, the truth will be expressed in us. To these, we add a VOW for the common salvation, also taken from the coins. Namely, in the Shekels of the Jews, according to ancient tradition, which Hebrew philologists have already examined, for the most part, one could see on one side, the rod of Aaron, with the inscription Holy Jerusalem, on the other the censer, with these words: Shekel of Israel. Or, on one side, the rod of Aaron, on the other, the urn or small vessel for storing the manna. And if it be permitted to apply these to our Church and State of Ulm, whose name is otherwise contained under the word Jerusalem, and perhaps not without an omen, I pray above all that this holy City of God may truly hear, and that the holy people, the redeemed...