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[Dietrich Philip Hand Book] This is the Enchiridion (Hand Book) "of the Christian Doctrine and Religion, compiled (by the grace of God) from the Holy Scriptures for the benefit of all lovers of the Truth."
Dietrich or Dirck (Theodore) Philip was a contemporary of and co-worker with Menno Simons.
Bishop Philip did not write for the purpose of entertaining the reader with fanciful theories or grandiloquent phrases. He was a teacher, and, although a scholar that was respected and envied for his attainments by his ecclesiastical opponents, yet his work needs to be studied as a text book and not read merely as a literary work of high merit.
From the Preface:
Inasmuch as many people for good and scriptural reasons desire to know what we believe, but many because of bitterness, some because of frivolous mind, despise and revile our faith, yet do not really know what we believe, but speak of our faith as a blind man speaks of colors, we therefore desire by the grace of God, according to Peter's teaching simply and briefly to render an account of and testify to our faith (1 Pet. 3:15), of our blessed state of salvation, and whence it comes, of baptism, of the communion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and how (according to the gift and measure of the Spirit as given to us of God) we regard these things (Rom. 12:6). But we desire, by the mercy of God, and through the love of Jesus Christ, that every one who professes faith in Christ and the gospel, read this our confession impartially, and measure and judge it by the Holy Scripture as the only guide and authority, remembering the word of the apostle who says (2 Tim. 2:24-26) that a servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but must be gentle as a father toward every one, apt to teach, and patient under evil; in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves and the truth; that perchance God would give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may extricate themselves from the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will.
If every one who professes that he is a Christian, and especially he who is looked upon as a minister of God's word, were thus minded, and had such an apostolic spirit, such a Christian nature, and showed his meekness and patience toward his adversaries, then Christianity would be of a higher order than it is today.
Translated from the German and carefully compared with the Dutch (in which language the book was originally written) by A. B. Kolb.
539 pages. Hardcover. Pathway Publishers.

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