De consolatione ethnica et christiana, censura theologica

should pursue those renowned studies of yours, both publicly and privately, and push for their success. I rejoice greatly in this, because I feel no small relief from the sorrows—which the calamities of the Church and the Republic repeatedly excite and exacerbate in my heart—whenever I observe ingenious Youth being illuminated by the illustrious gifts of God, the glory of doctrine and virtues, and being divinely instructed for great functions of office. For as long as I see that happening, that proverb will always be dear to me: God still looks upon us.

But it will benefit you greatly if, having convinced yourselves that the ἔργον work/task of your lives and studies is Piety, you direct all your studies toward the glory of God and the public utility as if toward a target, mindful of the very grave sentiment of the blessed Jerome: We are all cautious in the smallest things and negligent in the greatest. This happens because we do not know where true life is.

Farewell. From the Academy of Basel.

JOHANNES IACOBVS GRYNAEVS.