Ioannis Vvolphii Tigurini De officio praeconis evangelici oratio, qua D. Pauli 2. Timoth. 2. locus explicatur, Stude teipsum probatum exhibere Deo, operarium non erubescendum, recte secantem sermonem veritatis

signifies that he is received into some order or college who is of approved merits and morals. The translation seems to have been made from the exploration of metals to the examination and censure of men: for just as gold is tested by fire, so are men tested by the censure and judgment of men. Therefore, to present oneself approved to someone is nothing else than to show oneself to be such that, in whatever part or method the inquiry is made, one is found to be true, just, sincere, and honest. From which it follows that as many as are the kinds of those with whom a man has business, there are as many forms of approval. Now a man has a primary commerce with himself; then with remaining men, which is nearest; then the highest and most salutary with the Best and Greatest God. Therefore, the first form of approval will be that by which each one approves himself to himself. Paul requires this everywhere, lest we attribute more than is fitting to ourselves and thus go to our ruin: writing to the Corinthians, he says, "Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith: approve yourselves" 2 Corinthians 13. And he persuaded those same people approaching the holy eucharist to first approve themselves 1 Corinthians 11. But also in the epistle to the Galatians Galatians 6, he describes the use and causes of this approval with many words. But this of approval is