Ioannis Vvolphii Tigurini De officio praeconis evangelici oratio, qua D. Pauli 2. Timoth. 2. locus explicatur, Stude teipsum probatum exhibere Deo, operarium non erubescendum, recte secantem sermonem veritatis

The office of the Evangelical Herald is to speak the words of God purely and to neglect no one's salvation.

THE ORATION
OF JOHANN WOLF
ON THE OFFICE
OF THE EVANGELICAL HERALD

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Since many things have been divinely discovered and instituted by our ancestors, venerable fathers and brothers, there is nothing more excellent than the fact that they wished for someone to rise twice every year from your assembly and order to speak about what our duty is, so that he might draw and excite not only himself but also this your venerable gathering, not only by his own opinions but also by arguments and examples gathered from the Holy Scripture to defend the dignity of this office. And your custom is approved not only by the divine Paul, in that he judges that we ought to be excited to the study of piety by mutual exhortations, but the very magnitude of our office also seems to require it, especially in these times and with such corrupt morals. For how great and heavy and arduous a task lies upon our own...