Solemn Orations in Praise of the Divine Elector Princes of Saxony, Maurice and Christian I

zeal for the Lutheran religion, and finally the inclined mind for adorning and assisting our studies. All of which, partly in this brief time, I.C.T. Your Illustrious Highness has declared in an illustrious manner, and partly is prepared to declare more illustriously hereafter for your memorable piety, wisdom, and virtue. For whatever has been diminished or collapsed in the Church, in the schools, and in the Republic, you command those things to be whole and inviolate by the power received from the supreme Prince of heaven and earth. We therefore acknowledge the distinguished goodness of God toward the Church and these entire lands, which has clemently granted You to us as such a Prince, so pious and so salutary, adorned with so many gifts and ornaments of virtues. For which supreme benefit, if we did not daily give thanks to God the most benign Father, and offer pious supplications for Your Illustrious Highness, we would be the most ungrateful of all. We pray, however, to the eternal God, that