propter quae beneficia peculiaria dei, quoniam vobis iura amicitiae grandia vigent, quippe vicinis, obsecro ac moneo, ut consilio tuo, cui sequendo per conscientiam magnam maximam tribuis auctoritatem, non multum fidat ambiguis nec nimis nimiae credat incolumitati, sed tandem professione religionis arrepta viribus potius resurgentis innocentiae convalescat, faciat se vetustus annis meritis novum.
In view of these peculiar bounties from God, since you and he being neighbours have strong bonds of friendship, I beseech and admonish you to give him your advice (for by your great conscientiousness you greatly influence one to follow your advice); urge him not to put much faith in uncertainties or trust excessively to his excessive health, but now at last to embrace the profession of religion and to choose rather to grow strong with the strength of reviving innocence, and now that he is old in years to make himself a new man by virtues.
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