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

bent for the strike, from which you may conjecture that the axe is already laid to the tree. If, finally, you look at the movement? We have seen it move from the southern region, where the matter was collected and ignited, gradually ascending to us toward the tropic of A Cancer zodiac symbol, indicating the celestial path of the comet. Cancer, meanwhile making its progress not slowly from the east to the west according to the order of the signs. May God avert the omen, lest it threaten that fires of war and hostile armies, collected from the enemies of Christ, will follow behind it. But whatever of these may happen, which is known to God alone, and it is not permitted for us to inquire too curiously: if we gather all these things, it will be no trouble to draw the conjecture from here that this comet, if indeed it is an index of that former star or is even considered on its own, signifies not obscurely that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ are approaching, and that it will happen through the cross. Nor is this without the agreement of evangelical truth. Christ and the Apostles predicted this regarding the last times. The Lord prescribed this to his own immediately from the beginning in this rule: Whoever wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, etc. Finally, this is that narrow path leading to eternal