1575. His motto, composed by himself and taking into consideration his own Christian name, was:
"Was lebt, das stirbt durch Adams Noth,
Was stirbt, das lebt durch Christi Tod."
Adam Reissner's published works are these:
1. The Miracles of Jesus Christ.[1] Printed by the Feierabend press, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1565.
This is a folio of 672 pages. It contains a long religious poem in 59 strophes of 7 lines, beginning :
"Der heylig Geist lasz gelingen."
The hymn is a summary of the miracles of Christ.
2. A History of the Military Exploits of Gcorg and Caspar von Frundsberg. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1568. Second edition, 1572.
3. The Psalms Translated. Frankfurt, 1568. This is an edition of Reissner's metrical versions of the Hebrew Psalms. Until recent years the author's private copy of these hymns was in the possession of Oberlehrer A. F. H. Schneider, the Schwenkfelder historian.
4. Jerusalem.[2] Printed by the Feierabend press, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1569.
This is a folio of 442 pages. It consists of three parts, of which the first and second are dated 1565. It closes with the hymn—Jerusalem, heilig genannt. This hymn, by Reissner, is a translation of the Latin hymn—Urbs beata Jerusalem. It is in 6 strophes of 6 lines, and forms the acrostic "Jhesus".
The Teglichs Gesangbuch, already discussed under number VI. of our Descriptive Bibliography, is another important work by Reissner. According to Koch,[3] this collection was published by Reissner. However, the manuscript of 1596 is the only form in which it is now extant. Of all the Schwenkfelder hymn-writers, in both Europe and America, the two greatest names are Daniel Sudermann and Adam Reissner. True, Reissner's
