Ein einfeltige weyse zu betten für einen gutten freundt

one prayer than I could have gained from much reading and composing.

Therefore, the greatest power lies in the heart making itself free and joyful for prayer. As Ecclesi. The Wisdom of Sirach says: Prepare your heart before prayer, so that you do not tempt God. What else is it to tempt God than when the mouth babbles and the heart is scattered elsewhere? Like that priest who prays in this way: "God, come to my assistance" original Latin: "Deus in adiutorium meum intende"; Boy, have you hitched [the horses]? "Lord, make haste to help me" original Latin: "Domine ad adiuuandum me festina"; Maid, go milk the cows. "Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit" original Latin: "Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto"; Run, boy, may the ague shake you, etc. I have heard and experienced many such prayers in my days under the Bapstumb Papacy, and almost all their prayers are of that kind. With them, God's name is only...