81:1
. Scio quidem curis atque occupationibus quibus sub ope coelesti pro salute patriæ fideliter excubatis, importune suggeri servilium litterarum. Sed cum præcelsa pietatis vestræ dignalio adeo peculiaris famuli non sit oblita, ut in ipso susceptæ expeditiohis prociuctu, sensibus meis desiderium sui sancto duplicaret alloquio; quis non intelligat quam patienter ineptiam tolerabitis, quam clementia provocatis? Unde qualiter sani confortante Deo sitis, sollicitus esse praesumo, aut quomodo cœptis spes voti communis arrideat.
我確知，在您於天助之下為祖國的安危忠心警醒的諸般憂勞事務之中，一封卑僕書信的呈遞是不合時宜的叨擾。但既然您虔敬崇高的尊嚴如此未曾忘記其特有的僕人，以致在您所承擔的遠征整裝待發之際，還以聖潔的問候在我心中加倍其對我的思念；誰不明白：您將何等寬容地擔待您以仁慈所引出的這份愚拙呢？故我斗膽掛念：您在神的安慰下是否康健，或共同祈願之盼望是否對您的諸般舉措報以微笑。
I know indeed that amid the cares and occupations with which, under heaven's aid, you faithfully keep watch for the safety of the fatherland, the petition of a servile letter is importunely suggested. But since the exalted graciousness of your devotion has so little forgotten its own peculiar servant that, in the very readiness of an undertaken expedition, it doubled to my senses its longing by a holy address; who would not understand how patiently you will bear the folly which you provoke by your clemency? Wherefore I presume to be anxious in what way you are in health, God comforting you, or how the hope of the common vow smiles upon your undertakings.
81:2
lllud autem non solum rogo, sed per illam quam a Deo accepistis mihique præstatis, gratiam precor, ut quanquam merito de indictae fidei firmitate securis nobis, magis impenso cautelae vestrae munere trepidationi nostrae et ignaviae consulatis: neque plus cogitetis quod universitas pro vobis devota supplicat, quam quod suspensa formidat. Sed licet pavidi ex conscientia peccatores, incunctabili tamen fide praesumimus, quod etiam si vobis, protegente Christo, hic metus noster risum moverit, vel divinas aures ad donandam nobis felicitatis vestrae laetitiam permovebit.
而這件事我不僅祈求，更藉您從神所領受、又賜予我的那份恩典懇求：儘管我們對所立定信仰的堅固理當安心，願您仍以更慷慨的謹慎之恩，為我們的惶懼與怯懦設想；並願您所顧念的，不多於全體虔誠會眾為您所懇求的，而是那懸念中所懼怕的。但我們雖因良心而是膽怯的罪人，卻仍以毫不遲疑的信心確信：即便蒙基督護佑、我們這份恐懼在您看來足以引發笑意，它至少也會打動神的耳，賜給我們您幸福的喜樂。
But this I not only ask, but by that grace which you have received from God and bestow on me, I pray: that although we are rightly secure concerning the firmness of the appointed faith, you would yet, by a more lavish gift of your caution, take counsel for our trepidation and cowardice; and that you consider not more what the whole devout community entreats on your behalf, than what it fears in suspense. But although we are timid sinners from conscience, we yet presume with unhesitating faith that, even if this fear of ours should move you, protected by Christ, to laughter, it will at least move the divine ears to grant us the gladness of your good fortune.