NEUOFFENBARUNGTo sing to the Lord in the time of temptation
1. Look but graciously down, oh holy and most loving Father, from Your most luminous Heavenly Heights upon us, Your laborious, powerless, mortal and sinful born children!
2. We plead and pray to you: oh most loving Father, spare us all from every temptation, and make us free from the bonds of the deadly evil of sin!
3. So we pray to you daily; oh hear but once the pathetic cries of thy dying children, and do not allow that the Father's most bitter enemy should strangle us before you would come to our most active help!
4. A thousand of them fall down in droves into the depths of the depths of eternal death in a few minutes, captured by your worst enemy; oh Father, You Holy Father, will You never save us from this infinitely pernicious plague and greatest need?
5. Oh most loving Father! So take but once captive the killing power of this prince of death, and bind him forever with your most powerful chains of eternal, endless love, and bind him forever with Your most powerful chains of eternal, endless love, to a place best suited for him; and thereby prevent that he never catches us and pull down into the depths of the depths of eternal death!
6. Oh Holy, most loving Father, You did not create us for death, nor for Satan, neither redeemed us for destruction; but for eternal life you have bled on the cross to open the gates of eternal life to us, Your children!
7. Therefore, oh Jesus, You Holiest Mediator, take from our hearts the test that is difficult to pass, and give us a purer sense for it, and the already long promised Spirit of Your love and grace and mercy, yes, Your promised Holy Spirit!
8. Dear Father, in Jesus, the Ruler in love, mercy and grace, You have surely spoken the eternal truth: The spirit is certainly willing; but weak is the flesh!
9. Oh, so take then the weakness from our flesh and let the eternal immortal spirit strengthen in it; and finally let him become lord and constant master in this so weak house, the strong and ought to be powerful spirit!
10. For what use are works and teachings to us, if we are not able to awaken the spirit with it, therefore the dark tests haunt us daily, and rob the healthy little mustard seed treacherously from our heart.
11. If this then always has to happen for and for, when will the tiny seed grow into a mighty tree then, so that under it’s branches and twigs the birds of the sky would like to come together to dwell there?
12. But hear, now hear, you my somber soul, and you also, my eternal spirit; for thus says the Lord:
13. "Oh, do not lament and weep, you children who have recognized Me in your hearts as the true and holy, most loving Father; for not I have embraced you with the chains of bondage, dear little children, but the world and you yourselves have done this to you!
14. Who gave you laws then? The world? Or you? Or I, your Father? Now behold, the test that lies in the law, as also the devastating death; but you shall not languish there under the yoke of the hard and dead law! That is why I even came into the world, to free you from the law, in whose place the only love was given to you. Now follow the love! So you are free from all temptations. So is it with Me in earnest. Amen"