are highly useful and necessary, I feel myself most obligated, by virtue of Your Most Gracious permission, to lay this book likewise at the feet of Your Imperial and Catholic Majesty with the deepest devotion, in the most profound submissiveness, and to most humbly beseech Your Most Gracious protection and high Imperial favor in the future. For such and heretofore enjoyed high Imperial favor, I remain for my lifetime in the most profound submission.

To Your Imperial and Catholic Majesty

Leipzig, the 12th of September,
in the Year of Christ 1725.