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

Blessed/Departed original: "μακαρίτης" And the former indeed, in the example of the Divine Maurice, commends our School to Your Illustrious Highness with most submissive zeal, and not unjustly complains of the slenderness and meagerness of the stipends which are provided to the professors of philosophy in the great difficulty of these times. Whence those professions are not rarely changed to the detriment of the studies of the Youth. For which difficult evil, Your Highness alone after the immortal God can easily provide a remedy. The other, held around the eighteenth birthday of Your Illustrious Highness, which is most desired by all good men, acts against the sufficiently cruel enemies of the Lutheran religion, who tried to treacherously deceive the Lord parent of T.F.C. Your Illustrious Highness, and grievously afflicted the Churches of these lands. Any pious reader will perceive that the patronage of Truth was undertaken against the malevolent. But from Your Illustrious Highness, Prince Elect-