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

to study the church rather than private conveniences, to follow God the Father whenever He calls, not to preach so much by oration and words, but to embrace God with the powers of the whole mind, and to prefer to suffer everything than to defect from Him. These very virtues, and all the rest, as things pleasing to God, beneficial to men, and necessary for the preservation of souls as well as bodies, before the evangelical herald preacher would commend them to others and persuade them to embrace them in their minds, he himself should first behold them with a sharp and intent mind, comprehend them with his mind, and pursue and perform them not only with a joyful and willing mind, but with every impulse of his spirit. And it should seem strange to no one that the Apostle thinks the formation of the evangelical herald must be initiated from that place from which the entire reason of the name and life of Christians is derived, as if from a fountain. For since the mind, from which an animal is said to be "animated," is entirely that which thrives, which senses, which remembers, which looks ahead, which governs and moderates the body over which it presides, there is no one, I think, for whom it is not clear that God has set this very thing over the body as a commander, and willed it to be, by the nature of things, intent and caring. It is necessary, therefore, that we incline our whole minds to those things to which we have been destined and called to perform.