Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas

in this profession, such as regeneration, preservation in every fortune, consolation in adversity, the testing of faith, and similar things. These things serve to excite the mind of the reader and carry it away into admiration of divine grace. To these he soon adds the Prophetic consensus upon which the Evangelical profession leans. And thus far the exordium, which clearly makes for attentiveness. In the third place follows the primary praxis action/practice, that one must perfectly stand in this doctrine, that is, one must constantly adhere to it. He has already proven constancy from the treatment of the exordium, therefore he soon passes to the other member of the proposition concerning the innocence of life. To which is annexed in the fourth place the kataskeuē confirmation, up to the end of the 1st chapter. At the beginning of the 2nd chapter is a renewal of the proposition concerning the innocence of life to be preserved, which he introduces as a porisma corollary/deduction from what preceded, and soon he fortifies his proposition with new reasons and arguments. In which he is engaged up to verse 13, at which place he in a certain way leads the thesin thesis/general topic to a specific case, and