The Wonders of Divine Faith

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They present these things openly to the Kind Reader, yet they regard them as unbelievable; they look upon the fact that any Christian who orders his life according to Divine faith is a distinguished worker of miracles original: "Patrator miraculorum" as if it were a mere ghost, and—not infrequently—they insolently blaspheme that which they are entirely ignorant of.

The entire aim of this labor and work is to bring about the Divine life in all believers through the wondrous essence of our Faith and its miraculous operation, so that in all followers of Christ original: "Christicolis" worldly life may be utterly annihilated, human life may be more joyfully improved in most people, and Christian life itself may be more wonderfully deified Deified (deificetur): In mystical theology, this refers to "theosis" or "divinization," the process by which a believer is transformed by grace to share in the divine nature of God., and GOD Himself, the thrice-greatest and best original: "ter optimus maximus"; a superlative title for God often used in formal Latin dedications, may be all in all more gloriously.

The manner of speaking employed to reveal this highest Mystery is the simplest, since this pious simplicity is the sincere mother-tongue of our faith, which is as simple as it is sublime—as Paul witnesses:

And I, when I came to you, brothers, he writes to the Corinthians (f) 1 Corinthians 2:1 I came not in loftiness of speech or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of Christ... and my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power: so that your Faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of GOD.

Thus speaks the Teacher of the nations and of Languages, the holy Apostle Paul.

Not a few of the faithful—almost all of whom, in this critical age, wish both to be and to appear learned—report a fruit no greater than those who are thirsty at a dried-up cistern, despite the abundance of books (especially modern ones) overflowing with ornate language. This occurs while they generally pay more attention to the pomp of letters and less to the truth of words than is proper, unaware that this truth itself is spirit and life; they thus leave behind the sweetness...