Ein einfeltige weyse zu betten für einen gutten freundt

among them in a single-minded, harmonious prayer, which God cannot despise. And do not leave the prayer until you have said or thought: "Well then, this prayer is heard by God; that I know certainly and truly." That is what "Amen" means.

You should also know that I do not want all these words to be spoken in prayer. For that would eventually become a clatter and empty, idle babble, read out of the book of letters, like the Rosenkrenze rosaries used by the Leyen laity and the prayers of the Pfaffen priests and Münche monks</gloss have been. Instead, I want the heart to be stirred and instructed by this, regarding what thoughts it should grasp in the Vater vnser Our Father. The heart can express such thoughts (when it is rightly warmed and eager to pray) with many other