Epistle to a Good Friend in Italy

Church regarding such new doctrine. Mandates have also gone out at the same time to speak to the authorities regarding the mentioned matter. They should look to it, as those who should be the first in care and effort to eradicate such an evil, what account they will give to God the Almighty for their slowness, if they—which we have assumed could not happen—will not have defended the truth, which is so necessary, with diligence and zeal, either by themselves or after such a glorious example. Truly, His Royal Majesty in England was so moved by the message that he considered it a misdeed to attend to the needs of the body before attending to such a Divine work.

Out of the declaration of His Royal Majesty, as well as the publication of the Legate, the States were moved; so that the common state would not come into harm and trouble through the anger of their allied Prince, and also so that they might maintain their own name, they summoned Vorstius. He, as an undaunted man, did not refuse and delivered himself to Hagae-comitis The Hague, where, in the full presence of the States, he was ordered to defend himself, which he did immediately, and delivered an oration on the 22nd of March in 1612, not in the Dutch or Latin language, but in High German, as is customary among the Upper German lands.