PRAEFATIO.

condemn that confused enormity which everyone sees in the Mass. Let mockers hurl their taunts at us as they will, and let them wittily relate stories in their banquets concocted without any appearance of truth; let the dregs of the sacrificing priests, with their sycophants and pimps, shout at us with full mouths and tear us apart; the Lord will nevertheless bring our innocence to light like the dawn. And the better known our discipline becomes, the more abundant will be the material for boasting in His grace. There remains yet one accusation to refute: that no one ought to flee the light if they are doing good. Whence many conclude that no clandestine meetings are to be approved. But why do they not rather pick a quarrel with those through whom it is not permitted for us to expose ourselves to the eyes of