Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1612 ya ci gaba da karatunsa na tauhidin a Tübingen. Bayan jarrabawar ƙarshe a 1614, ya zama diakona a Vaihingen an der Enz, kuma a 1620 firist a Calw. A nan ya gyara makarantar da cibiyoyin zamantakewa, kuma ya kafa cibiyoyi don sadaka da sauran taimako. Domin wannan, ya kafa "Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft" ("Kungiyar Kiristoci Masu Ƙaunar Allah"). A shekara ta 1628 ya shirya "Unio Christiana". Ya sami kuɗi kuma ya kawo taimako mai tasiri don sake gina Calw, wanda aka lalata a cikin Yaƙin Nördlingen (1634)
sojojin daular kuma annoba ta ziyarce su. A shekara ta 1639, ya zama mai wa'azi a kotu kuma mai ba da shawara na consistory ("Konsistorialrat") a Stuttgart, inda ya ba da shawara ga gyaran cocin na asali. Ya kuma zama mai ba da shawara na ruhaniya ga sarauniyar sarauniya ta Württemberg.