The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . of holiness. For this purposehe, with Wohlfarth and several others of his immediatesupporters, composed a number of hymns, in which pre-vails a strain of inspiration and mysticism. To thesehymns were added those contained in the three Franklinimprints of 1730, 1732 and 1736, which have already beendescribed, and the manuscript collection of 1734, togetherwith a large number of hymns used by the Inspired in Title from Hildeburn, Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania. 294 The German S
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . of holiness. For this purposehe, with Wohlfarth and several others of his immediatesupporters, composed a number of hymns, in which pre-vails a strain of inspiration and mysticism. To thesehymns were added those contained in the three Franklinimprints of 1730, 1732 and 1736, which have already beendescribed, and the manuscript collection of 1734, togetherwith a large number of hymns used by the Inspired in Title from Hildeburn, Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania. 294 The German Sectarian!, of Pennsylvania. Germany, and which were printed in the •• Kleine David-ische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions.^^ These hymns, aboutseven hundred in number, were grouped under thirty-threeseparate headings. How this collection, which enjoys thedistinction of being the first book to be printed with Ger-man type in America, was eventually brought out togetherwith the controversies it engendered between the printerand publisher, forms one of the most interesting chaptersin Pennsylvania SPECIMEN OF DISPLAY TYPE PROM THE KLOSTER FONT, Made at Ephrata prior to 1748. CHAPTER HABITS OF THE ORDERS.
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