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The Medieval Church · 1498
Meditation on Psalm 51
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Girolamo Savonarola · 1452–1498
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What it is
Written in prison after torture and days before his execution: a meditation on mercy that finds no ground of hope in itself and rests entirely on grace.
Why it lasted
Reprinted repeatedly in Protestant Europe, including by Luther, who published it with a preface — an unexpected afterlife for a Dominican reformer.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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