 In December 1595 he went to Basel and Geneva, where he attended Lectures by Theodore Beza.It was also here where his disputations "De sacramentis" (Basel, 1595) and "De causis salutis" (1595) gained him the offer of a position as teacher (with the approval of Beza and Johann Jakob Grynaeus).Instead, he went to Burgsteinfurt in 1596, in the County of Bentheim.