A large ornamental headpiece featuring a central radiant triangle containing the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (the four-letter name of God), surrounded by clouds and five winged cherubs. The scene is framed within a complex oval of acanthus leaf scrolls and floral motifs, topped with a crown.

PART ONE.

THE ADMIRABLE ESSENCE

OF DIVINE FAITH.

Ornamental initial letter H, featuring a cherub leaning against the letter amidst floral scrollwork.This is little more than asking: whether God exists, and whether this God is so truthful original: "verax" that a human being is bound to believe, without any hesitation or exception, whatever He has said or commanded to be said? Would you, whoever you are that lives doubting yourself in matters of supernatural faith, dare to inquire openly: whether there is such a thing as human faith original: "fides humana," referring to the trust humans place in one another’s testimony in the world? Or perhaps this argument seems less certain to you: there are people worthy of trust original: "fide digni"; therefore, human faith exists. But if you were to contradict this obvious truth, your very contradiction would be the strongest proof against you—that you yourself are a person of ill repute, worthy of no trust. Nor would even a single word coming out of your mouth be heard as conforming to sincere truth, according to your own declaration that no human being [is to be given] any... The text cuts off mid-sentence; the catchword "piam" suggests the next word is "quidpiam," meaning "anything" or "any credit."