Grace and peace in Christ.
My dear reader, these sermons, which were previously almost untidily and clumsily put together by others and went out through the printing press, I have had to leave in error until now, as they have gone, because I myself have not had the time to examine them. But because they have my name, it has pleased me almost well that my dear friend, M. Stephau Rodt, has taken care of them, to improve and justify them, so that they may become my own.
**) Cf. Walch XI Forewords 37 and Erl. A. 7, 17.
D. Red.
The more the sermons are read, the more they would resemble my sermons, and the more they would adorn our doctrine.
Whoever likes them, may read and use them; for I do not want to teach with this, nor with some of my books, those who have it better by God's grace, or who think they have it better themselves; for me and my kind I want to have served with it, according to our poor need, to improve and stimulate faith and love, Christ alone be our Master! Amen.