4th most translated

Now I go that from a very reliable scholarly source.  It is a book I stumbled upon, but one I cherish now.  It begins with this question:

What is your only comfort in life and in death?

Know it now?

It was written by a team of men, including Ursinus.

It was written in 1562.

. . . . . .

It is:

The Heidleberg Catechism.

It is gracious, warm, pastoral, redemptively centered -- a true reflection of Lutheran thinking.  And it contains some remarkable portions.

For example, the major part of the answer to that first question:

What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.  He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.  He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father who is in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.