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

And in minds filled with this spirit, neither faith, which has all hopes and resources placed in God and is the parent and procreator of all the best actions and words, nor the duties of charity owed to men, nor the study of divine and celestial things will ever fail; but from them will flow such an abundance of most holy actions and words that many acres of meadows, that is, many hundreds of mortals, can be irrigated. Such, indeed, was the virtue of that Joseph who had been sold into Egypt by his own brothers, which provided greater fertility and abundance of things not only to the Egyptians but even to all the neighboring nations than the Nile could ever bring. By the inspiration of the same spirit, Moses was kind toward the good, severe and grave toward the wicked, a contemner of all labors, pains, and dangers, and so pious toward his native nation that he preferred to be deleted from the book of life than to have it extirpated from the roots. He was also such a diligent seeker of truth that, without food and drink, he spent forty continuous days on Mount Sinai receiving divine laws. From the mind of Daniel, as if from a perennial fountain of industry, it flowed that God Himself...