Devils So Work That Things Which Are

Can Anyone Be So Foolish As To Believe That There Are Men Whose Feet Are Higher Than Their Heads, Or Places Where Things May Be Hanging Downwards, Trees Growing Backwards, Or Rain Falling Upwards? Where Is The Marvel Of The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon If We Are To Allow Of A Hanging World At The Antipodes?

The Prophets, Who Were Very Many, Proclaim And Declare The One God; For, Being Filled With The Inspiration Of The One God, They Predicted Things To Come, With Agreeing And Harmonious Voice.

Therefore Let Men Withdraw Themselves From Errors; And Laying Aside Corrupt Superstitions, Let Them Acknowledge Their Father And Lord, Whose Excellence Cannot Be Estimated, Nor His Greatness Perceived, Nor His Beginning Comprehended.

Let It Be Known That This Is The True Church, In Which There Is Confession And Penance And Which Takes A Health-promoting Care Of The Sins And Wounds To Which The Weak Flesh Is Subject.

It Is Possible That Mount Olympus May Have Supplied The Poets With The Hint For Saying That Jupiter Obtained The Kingdom Of Heaven, Because Olympus Is The Common Name Both Of The Mountain And Of Heaven.