of the mind, to be equally adored and worshipped. And this confession from the beginning has been held as the true, orthodoxa right-believing and catholica universal faith: just as we render it in the Apostolic Symbolo Creed.
Orthodox and catholic doctrine concerning God.

I. Recite for me also other testimonies that you have attributed to God.
R. This would be too wordy and laborious, nor is it strictly necessary. For who does not know that God alone is the best, greatest, wisest, most truthful, the creator and powerful one of all things, and finally the governor and preserver? There are very excellent testimonies of this matter in Mosem Moses (Exodus 33 and 34) and in the Psalmis Psalms, especially in Psalm 104 and 139, and elsewhere in the scriptures everywhere.

OF THE COVENANT OF GOD,

WHICH GOD MADE

with men, and of the

true worship of God.

A woodcut depicts a decorative initial letter Q containing a globe or sphere design.Q With what principal thing did God declare his benevolence toward men?
The promise of God.

R. By a promise, by which, provoked by no merit of ours, but moved by his own nature and mere goodness and grace, he promises us the most excellent goods of both this present life and the future one. For the divine promise is twofold, since one belongs to spiritual things, and the other truly to corporal things. The spiritual [promise] pertains to celestial goods and those of the future life, to the soul of man and the restoration of his whole being. And it has these most powerful promises: "The seed of the woman shall crush the head of the serpent, etc." Likewise, "In your seed shall all nations be blessed, etc." And again, "And this is the testament that I will strike with them; I will be propitious to their iniquities, and I will not remember their sins anymore." Furthermore, the corporal promise revolves around the temporal goods of the present life, which are indeed multiple and various, such as health, form, strength, faculties, and countless others of this kind.