![]() The hymn wasrendered into Danish for Een ny Haandbog, 1529. Then, once while mass was being celebrated in the principal churchin Heidelberg, the people began singing this hymn “as with onemouth.” The duke realized that it was high time that the people weregranted their desire in the matter, and the Reformation was inaugurated.Similar incidents took place in Magdeburg and other cities. The Catholic priests tried to contradict him, but the congregationstruck up the hymn of Speratus, and Werner’s enemies gave up the fight.In the Palatinate, also, the people desired to introduce the Reformation, butthe duke dared not for fear that he would incur the emperor’sdispleasure. Thepreacher, Werner, delivered the first evangelical sermon in the city in theyear 1535. “By means of this hymn the precious truthconcerning righteousness by faith through the grace of God was sung into thecongregations.” In the town of Waiblingen near Stuttgart the Catholicpriests vigorously opposed the Reformation, while the people favored it. ![]() Luther shed tears of joy when he heard it sung by a street-singeroutside his window in Wittenberg. One hymnologist has called it the great confessional hymn of theReformation. This hymn by Speratus has beencalled the poetic parallel to Luther’s preface to the Epistle to theRomans. THEREFORE we conclude that a man is justified by faithwithout the deeds of the Law” (Rom. It has been called “the trueconfessional hymn of the Reformation” and the “poetical connterpartof Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans.” Miles Coverdaletranslated it for his Goostly Psalmes and Spiritualle Songes, c. It was headed“A Hymn of Law and Faith, Powerfully Furnished with God’sWord,” and was in fourteen stanzas. It was probably writtenin the fall of 1523 and then included in the first Lutheran hymnal, theso-called Achtliederbuch, entitled Etlichchristlich lider, 1524. This is the most famous hymn of Paul Speratusand also one of the oldest and best known of Lutheran hymns. Vom Fleisch wollt’ nicht heraus derGeist,
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