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Schickfus, Jacob · 1614

desired to turn his mind, heart, senses, and thoughts away from this earthly and perishable worldly existence in good time. He by no means gawked at or followed the example of the physician Jacques Coitier original: "Jacobo Cotterio", who obtained fifty-four thousand crowns from King Louis XI original: "Ludovico Undecimo" in France within five months. He also did not want to follow the physician Erasistratus a famous doctor of antiquity, who at one time received nearly fifteen thousand ducats as a gift for his cure. In my opinion, physicians were then honored much more highly than unfortunately happens now.
Instead, this was the sole aim of our Physician: how he could lead a quiet, retired life, pleasing to God and men before the whole honorable world. He wished to spend the remaining time of his life on the mysteria mysteries and secrets of the Scriptures. This is sufficiently known to all those who conversed and associated with him.
In such studio study or pursuit, he remained comforted until his blessed final hour. He overcame all adversities of this temporal life with great gentleness and patience.