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

most gifted, who are able to be approved by Christ our supreme pontiff, so that we may be worthy and be seen to be those who are co-opted into that college of the most ample Priesthood. But also, having now left behind childish things, we have grown in the maturity of our minds toward prudence, so that we are not affected more by childish and light things than by heavenly and divine ones. I do not have a need to commemorate the sentiment which our Paul wrote to the Corinthians and Ephesians, since you yourselves are not ignorant of it. However, I cannot pass over in silence that he describes to them the manly toga which adults take. "Not in banquetings and drunkenness," he says, "not in beds and lasciviousness, not in contention and emulation, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ" Ephesians 4. And he says that those taught in Christ are renewed in the spirit of their mind, and put on the new man, who is created according to God, through justice and holiness of truth Colossians 3. And he says to the Colossians: "Do not lie to one another, after you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed unto the knowledge and image of Him who created him." Now since by the term "old man" is meant the depraved nature of man, which is accustomed to lie and deceive: