De consolatione ethnica et christiana, censura theologica

For indeed, when I understood that your ancestors carried the lamp of civil government, as if handed down from hand to hand, in the courts of Emperors and great Princes, I persuaded myself that their glory is a sort of light to you, which would not allow your words and deeds to remain in obscurity. For that reason, intending to add spurs to those who are already running of their own accord, I commend to each of you again and again the noble saying of Chrysostom: It is better that your parents should be proud of you, than that you yourself should be proud of your parents.

Moreover, you have in this age among other φωσῆρας beacons/luminaries who shine before you with their own example, a domestic ornament, Master Zacharias, your brother, Master Johannes, whom, having been warned by the most noble Volrad von Pleffen, I began to know and admire last year for his exceptional use of civil prudence and learned doctrine. By this lovable example,

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