De mediatoris invocatione

TO THE NOBLE YOUNG MAN, DN. HOLGER WULFSTANDT, OF DANISH STOCK, S. D. P. original: "Salutem Dicit Plurimam" - Sends many greetings

An image-desc from the original: Decorative drop cap letter S. There is a just cause why we congratulate industrious and diligent farmers on fruitful and fertile fields, because otherwise, when neglected, destructive ferns grow in the fields. Who would doubt, noble Holger, that you are to be congratulated not only for a happy talent and one excellently capable of learned doctrine, a faithful memory, and that virtue which, emerging from a beautiful body, possesses singular grace, but also for the faithful instruction and guidance of a most learned man, the Christian Aeschylus A term of high praise, likely referring to a mentor or tutor.?

Indeed, when I see you acting as an assiduous auditor of historical lectures, together with the most noble young men, Georg Spigel, Jakob Biornon, Peter Dreffelbergh, and Stenone Belde, and when I hear you, in theological disputations, frequently and elegantly discussing the most excellent matters and modestly bringing forward well-considered points, I am gladdened that, by your example and that of your countrymen, a spur is applied to the others. For my part, I congratulate you with my whole heart on those gifts, the amiable first-fruits of which I frequently taste. And since that most famous man, D. Johannes Sturm, the pillar and ornament of our aging world and especially of the Republic of Letters, has accurately recommended you to me, it has been a particular pleasure to me that you have obtained the hospitality of a well-mannered house, that of my cousin, D. Samuel Grynaeus, Jurisconsult, and that you have found such a guide for your life and morals in D. Aeschylus that you flourish in Basel with the praise of temperance and modesty.

I pray to the eternal God that He may continue to adorn you with the gifts of mind and body, for His own glory and the utility of the Republic, so that, instructed not only by the praise of your lineage and ancestors, but also by the safeguards of virtues and doctrine, you may return, happy and eager, to the most praiseworthy and powerful King of the Danes and Norwegians, Frederick II, having completed your academic period in Denmark, with God original: "σὺν θεῷ" (syn theo). Basel, on the Nones of March, the year 1583.

JOHANNES JAKOB GRYNAEUS,
Professor of Sacred Theology.