DEDICATION

...that You show yourself an indulgent and favorable judge and defender to it. For indeed, if this study and labor of ours is not unwelcome to such a great Hero original: "Heroi." In the Baroque era, this was a common honorific for a person of high rank or exceptional intellectual and moral virtue., I shall not at all fear the bites of my adversaries, which no amount of diligence can help us avoid. Moreover, I pray to the immortal God that He may command You to participate in the sacred senate original: "sacro... senatui." Refers to the high governing council of the church. for as long as possible, and that He claim the return of such a great pledge original: "pignoris." The author describes the President himself as a precious 'pledge' or treasure lent by God to the earthly church. to His heaven only at a very late hour; so that the Saxon Church original: "Ecclesia Saxonica." may have a PRESIDENT, who [guides] the same...