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At long last, below you will find the final prayer included at the end of Andreas Hyperius’s Elementa Christianae Religionis. This one is to be used before reading or hearing the Bible. Once again, the attempt (doubtless insufficient) was made to put it in Cranmerian Plain Style. The content of the prayer, in any case, gives […]
The next of Hyperius’s prayers, this one for the evening, is translated below. It is a good bit longer than his morning prayer; but it is also quite good. After this, only one more remains to be done. An evening prayer. Lord God, most generous Father, for thy kindnesses both internal and external, by which […]
A couple of years ago I translated two prayers by Andreas Hyperius from his Elementa Christianae Religionis (Elements of the Christian Religion). There are a few more from that final section of the work, so I figured, well, why not. They’re good. All of them, including those I translated back in 2017, are intended as […]
The Flemish theologian Andreas Hyperius (1511-64), in the preface to his posthumous Methodus theologiae (Method of Theology) (1567), offers a brief compend of the sum and scope of Scripture (and, therefore, of theology, of which Scripture of the principium cognoscendi, or “principle/foundation of knowing”). He says: But the sum of all those things that are handed on […]
Yesterday I posted Andreas Hyperius’ prayer when one is on one’s way to his studies; here is his prayer for after they have concluded (A studiis). For those things that thou hast wished, O God, heavenly Father, for me to learn in the elements of piety and in the honorable arts, I give thee greatest […]