Proeve vant ware ende valsche gheloove, ... / Sebastianus Castellio ; Uyt 't Lat. overgh. d...

...and in everything you need, do you then turn for refuge to God alone; and do you also not doubt in the slightest whether He will provide for you in all things with kindness? Why do you doubt? Why do you not answer, Lodewyck Ludwig? Confess the truth, and do not let yourself be moved by that vain and carnal fear which plagues Mensen people/humans, causing them not to confess their failings, because they fear that they would be alienated from those to whom they confess such things, and be held in less regard as being flawed. From me, you have no such thing to fear; I cannot be alienated from anyone because of those failings which I have long seen and acknowledged to exist within myself, and which I do not doubt exist in others (unless they have reached the end of their path, which neither you nor I have yet finished), nor will I think any the less of you if you confess with your mouth to your friend what I have long known your spirit confesses. Lod. I am ashamed, O Vrederick Frederick, to confess, but that shoe of shame must be taken off. I am indeed often and powerfully anxious and concerned about those necessary things, that I should lack no Broot bread, no Wyn wine, or other things, especially when I see that I have little money and see no ready means to obtain new money. Vred. But when you have a full purse, or when ready means are at hand, then there is no, or at least less, anxiety.