Schaff - History of the Christian Church Vol. 8 - Media Sabda Org

the end of the year. His friends at home and abroad, including Faber,
Pirkheimer, and Dürer at Nürnberg, congratulated him on his recovery.
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The experience during this season of public distress and private affliction
must have exerted a good influence upon his spiritual life. f54 We may
gather this from the three poems, which he composed and set to music
soon afterwards, on his sickness and recovery. They consist each of
twenty-six rhymed iambic verses, and betray great skill in versification.
They breathe a spirit of pious resignation to the will of God, and give us an
insight into his religious life at that time. f55 He wrote another poem in
1529, and versified the Sixty-ninth Psalm. f56
ZWINGLI’S POEMS DURING THE PESTILENCE, WITH A FREE
CONDENSED TRANSLATION.
I. Im Anfang der Krankheit.
Hilf, Herr Gott, hilf
In dieser Noth;
Ich mein’, der Tod
Syg f57 an der Thür.
Stand, Christe, für;
Denn du ihn überwunden hast!
Zu dir ich gilf: f58
Ist es din Will,
Zuch us den Pfyl, f59
Din Haf f63 bin ich,
Mach ganz ald f64 brich.
Dann nimmst du hin
Den Geiste min
Der mich verwundt,
Nit lass ein Stund
Mich haben weder Rüw f60 noch Rast!
Willt du dann glych f61
Todt haben mich
Inmitts der Tagen min,
So soll es willig syn.
Thu, wie Du willt,
Mich nüt befilt. f62
Von dieser Erd,