Cordatus reports Cruciger's dictation as follows: "Tantum Christus est causa propter quem; interim tamen verum est, homines agere aliquid oportere; oportere nos habere contritionem et debere Verbo erigere conscientiam, ut fidem concipiamus, ut nostra contritio et noster Conatus sunt causae iustificationis sine quibus non-our contrition and our endeavor are causes of justification without which it does not take place."
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
This desire is the perpetual Conatus of that love, from which flow all its effects.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
That Conatus is the very essence of motion, and that desire is the living Conatus appertaining to man, is confirmed by the researches of philosophers, and is also evident to such as take a view of the subject from refined reason.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg