Quaestio illustris: an'ne renati de sua ipsorum et de aliorum Piorum aeterna electione, certo pronunciare, & per fidem, in Domino, de eadem gloriari debeant

doctrine, and were the first of all to prudently, piously, and constantly embrace and profess it, without the leaven of any τῆς ἑτεροδιδασκαλίας strange teaching: and then that they persevered and stood firm in its holy faith until the glorious end of a life lived praiseworthily: and that they handed down its holy, most luminous lamp to you, their descendants, to be carried constantly and sincerely. Be strong in virtue, Count STANISLAUS, and (since your most learned tutor, Johannes Amplias, leads and urges you hither) continue to insist upon the footsteps of your ancestors' faith, by the example both of your illustrious cousins and of your heroic brothers, and do not ever suffer the Sirens—I mean the heretics and Epicureans—to deceive you, so that you might depart even a hair's breadth from the holy institute of life and from the truth of the Gospel: but rather that you may testify to it and adorn it with your voice and life, to the glory of God.

Furthermore, it pleased me to inscribe the resolution of this illustrious Question regarding the glory of the Elect to your illustrious name, so that you who received from me two years ago the pledge of our fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, might also have a μνημόσυνον remembrance of our Basel gathering, which might one day refresh for you the memory even of your late host, Grynaeus.
May the Lord JESUS keep you for His glory, Amen. The Calends of August, 1587.
BASEL.