Jesus Nazaraeus, sive explicatio loci in sancto D.N. Jesu Christi Evangelio secundum Matthaeum cap. 2. v. 23. Nazaraeus vocabitur

all things belong, wished them to be offered to him and held them as pleasing. Thus, in the same way, I have permitted myself to hope that you, following the example of the clemency of God, will not reject these things, which are the first of my writings to come into the light. That you may do so, and that you may always count me among your number, I ask of you, magnificent Lords and best patrons. For I, since this benefit of God the Best and Greatest toward you is great and illustrious—that it is permitted to those who are studious of letters, and to the pious in general, to live piously throughout your entire dominion, and to enjoy deep peace, and truly (as he said so well) τῷ ἡσύχῳ τῆς εἰρήνης ἡδονῇ in the pleasure of the stillness of peace: since (I say) there is such great, and clearly divine, endurance of peace and leisure for you as rulers, such that hardly anything further could be sought in this regard: I shall never cease to pray to God the Father the Best through Jesus Christ, that he may wish to guard and preserve this most flourishing and blessed state of your Republic: and that he may grant to us—that is, to all your people—this mind always, that under your domination we may serve his Christ, and not perversely use his singular...