Annotatio III §.VIII: David/Solomon parallel — Great Elector’s peace zeal; Differtatiuncula / Dorothea; inheritance to Solomon our King
so the same seems to have befallen that prince of immortal glory — famed no less for piety toward God and sincerity of heart than for warlike fortitude, a devoted follower of St. David on both sides — as befell that Hebrew
David burned to build Jehovah a stone temple, yet was barred from the work for set causes, and the building passed to his son Solomon, for whom God had also destined it;
likewise the most glorious Achilles of the Marchers, kindled with zeal to advance day by day the Evangelical peace once sought at Leipzig with him as persuader and author,
even with tears attested as much to us when we humbly offered our little Dissertation on Ecclesiastical Peace (which by his special order was soon to be put into the vernacular and dedicated to his most serene consort Dorothea, worthy of so great a hero),
and was about, as often before, most kindly to open his then thoughts on that peace and press perpetual peace-zeal upon us with all his force —
yet God so disposing, for reasons known to the All-wise alone, he was drawn off from raising the sanctuary of Protestant peace,
and transmitted by inheritance to his son — our Solomon, everywhere pacific, now crowned by God with the royal diadem — both richer furniture collected for finishing that sanctuary and his own desire for peace.
Latin
Quô pactô immortalis Gloriae Principi, Pietatis non minus in Deum & Sinceritatis Cordis sui, quàm Fortitudinis bellicae famâ, maximè inclyto, strenuo utrobique S. Davidis aemulatori, idem videtur accidisse, quod isti Hebraeo: Quemadmodum enim hic, maximo licèt Jehovae Templum aedificandi lapideum desiderio flagrans, ab instituto tamen, certis ex causis, prohibebatur, aedificandi negotio in filium Salomonem devolutô, cui etiam à Deo destinatum idem fuerat; ita simili prorsus modô Gloriosissimus Marchicorum Achilles, incredibili Pacis Evangelicae (à Suasore Autoreque Lipsiae olim quaesitae) indies magis magisque promovendae, zelo accensus, cum vel lacrymis, nobis, Differtatiunculam nostram de Pace Ecclesiastica, (speciali ejus jussu in vernaculam paulò post transferendam, Serenissimaeque ejus, tantô Heröe dignissimae Conjugi DOROTHEAE inscribendam) humillimè offerentibus testatus est, varia etiam de hac Pace, meditata sua tum temporis, uti aliàs pluries, aperturus clementissimè, pacisque studium perpetuum nobis, quantâ poterat vi virtuteque quâ pollebat maximâ, inculcaturus, Deo sic disponente, & ob causas soli sapientissimo notas, à Sacrario Pacis Protestanticae exstruendo abstractus est, supellectili tamen ad Sacrarium istud perficiendum, copiosiori à se collectâ, unà cum desiderio Pacis suo, in Filium suum, SALOMONEM NOSTRUM, undequaque pacificum, Regioque nunc Diademate à Deo exornatum, per haereditatem transmissâ.