Vita clarissimi viri D. Iosiae Simleri Tigurini, S. Theologiae in Schola Tigurina Professoris fidelissimi

...is the impious and wicked ingratitude of the world itself, both toward God and toward the pious and wise men whom it hates, despises, and vexes. The other is the singular love and benevolence of God Himself toward pious and wise men, by which He, as if touched by a desire for them, deigns to snatch them away, both from the present in which they dwell and from future and impending evils, and to transfer and lead them by a premature death to His eternal joys. We have, therefore, been deprived of an excellent and most outstanding man at a time most inconvenient for our Republic and Church, just as we have deserved by our sins. But he, as we clearly hope, has been brought out from the darkness and chains of this body and world into that immense light and freedom, and sees and possesses the heavenly inheritance promised to all the pious. Wherefore, if we look at our own state, his death is to be followed with grief and lamentations; but if we look at the times themselves, and the storms and intemperance of our age, it is to be followed with joy and congratulations. In his place, Ioannes Iacobus Frisius has been appointed, son of the most famous man Ioannes Frisius, moderator of the school among us, of pious memory; we hope that, due to the excellent gifts of mind and intellect with which he is endowed, he will not fall short in this duty. These things concerning the birth, life, and death of our Simler, written by me not so much ornately as truthfully, I pray and ask all lovers of piety and truth who read them to interpret in the best way.