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To the most Illustrious and most pious Prince and Lord, the Lord

CHRISTIAN II,

Duke of Saxony, Elector and Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, and Burgrave of Magdeburg, his most Clement Lord.

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Whatever we have prayed for from the immortal DEO God, most Illustrious and most pious Prince Elector, most Clement Lord, that He might illuminate your most generous heart with the rays of Divine light, that we have happily obtained from His immense Mercy. Whence our hearts exult with great joys because of the distinguished piety of your Illustrious Highness, the incredible wisdom, the admirable virtue, the excellent zeal for preserving Justice, and the divine original: "diuinum in Lutherana re"