Ioannis Wolphii Tigurini de christiana perseverantia commentationis consolatoriae, ad N. captivos fratres liber unus. ...

DEDICATION.
silver antidōron reciprocal gift. For since everything that proceeded from my father was always most welcome to you, I thought it would be especially so if thanks were given to you for the favors with which you provided me, in the name of the same man for whose sake you had done them. Therefore, having taken the Commentaries on Ezra and two books of Letters, I approached the printer: neither of which he could accept due to his business. I waited until now: I approached him again: he denied that he could accommodate me in any other way than if I provided some short writing to be submitted to the press. Thus it happened that, having lost the opportunity to publish a larger work more worthy of you, and fearing that a longer delay might perhaps rouse the suspicion that the memory of your favors had died out in me, I now send you this little book on Christian Perseverance, which my father had once written to certain brethren thrown into prison for the confession of the true faith, both to soften and mitigate their sorrows and to confirm their faith. I chose this little book from his lesser works most of all because of...