DEDICATION

to the mine): for I do not wish to win over anyone; and I do not find it appropriate to leave one corruption to enter into another: But I advise all those who ask me, to enter into the reform of their souls, and to strive to become true Christians and disciples of Jesus Christ, and not of a Luthere Martin Luther, Calvin John Calvin or others, by whatever name they may be called: seeing as all men are failing, and that God alone is alone Holy: who has sent Jesus Christ his son to men as a Dieu-homme God-man, or a divinized man, so as to teach them his Justice and his Divine Truth, and at the same time his human works, to arrive at this Justice and Divine Truth.

But this Burchardus Burchard will not understand this language, because he has not exactly found these same terms in his study books. He attaches himself instead to recounting a quantity of Histories of past things, rather than what would be profitable for the salvation of souls. In which he testifies enough that he does not possess the pure Gold of Charity, but that all his Treatise is only leton doré gilded brass with some holy words. For he says in his Title, that his book