Proeve vant ware ende valsche gheloove, ... / Sebastianus Castellio ; Uyt 't Lat. overgh. d...

Now God has promised you not 500 crowns, but all that you need, and yet you doubt. Lod. You speak the truth. Vied. Do you believe less in God than in Henric Kondeveldt, not to mention your Father? Lod. I am compelled to confess the truth. Vied. Nevertheless, it could happen that men do not keep their promise, and that through unfaithfulness or inability, neither of which can ever apply to God. Thus, through your mistrust, you accuse God of unfaithfulness or weakness. Lod. It is true. Vied. If it is then so that you mistrust God in the food of the body, which has never yet failed you, how will you be able to trust Him for the blessed and eternal life, which you have never yet tasted? Consider this matter thus: if a king were to send a messenger to you through whom he adopted you as a son, and you believed such a thing, how would you behave? Lod. I would truly consider all the property that I had as nothing, and would be here in body but mentally already living at the court. Something similar happened to me while still a young man; for when I lived in a very meager state, I was tempted to live in the household of a rich edelman nobleman, through which calling I felt such a change in my herte heart that I no longer thought of any of the things I had thought of before, nor was I tormented by any anxiety. Indeed, what is more, when money was sent to me by my parents, I let them know that they should not send me more, as money would no longer be lacking to me. Why shall I say much? I already pictured in my hersenē mind/brains the appearance of the house, of the place, and of the people with whom I would live, notwithstanding that I had never seen such a thing.