TO THE DIVINE FERDINAND, EMPEROR.

So that, since the world was created, no King has been happier than you alone because of this. But so that you may see how long a way remains for us, in attracting the Ishmaelites themselves to the kingdom of Christ by the use of their own most ample language through the printing of the Arabic Gospel, and how widely the wicked kingdom of the Chamesites a derogatory reference to followers of Ham or non-believers and the alumni of Babylon extends: in the same Work, I have exposed the success of the affairs that have been managed throughout the whole world. Yet, it is in such a way that, from my exposition, the constant divine care and particular providence of God and our Lord Jesus Christ may be seen, until the world is led to Christianity, not only by the guidance of sacred Authority (which has become more than ridiculous to the whole world, especially however to I know not what Christianity of our century, which is full of the highest hypocrisy and latent tyranny), but especially by the guidance of natural Reason, for the sake of illuminating and restoring which alone