Gregorii de Valentia, Societatis Iesu, Oratio de veris ac falsis rerum divinarum doctoribus discernendis

less mindful than I should be of the usefulness or salvation of my neighbors, to whom we are consecrated. Therefore, when the consent of my Superiors was added to the desire of others, I suffered not at all unwillingly for that oration of mine to go forth into public. For who knows at what time, by what occasion, the Lord will take pity, according to his immense goodness, upon those who have been miserably deceived by the masters of the Sects, so that they might no longer imprudently believe a lie, and with open eyes might perceive the most evident reason they have (as Saint Augustine says) for why they ought to adhere to Catholic Teachers rather than Innovators?
Book 2, contra Julian, in the beginning.

This, in truth, is the scope of my oration. Which, as I have little doubt that it will fall into great hatred and criticism of those whose authority it detracts from, that is, the Sectarians, so I trust it will easily be the case that by you, excellent READER, whoever you are who loves sincere truth, this effort of ours may be approved. Fare well, and pray to Christ for us. Given at Ingolstadt, on the very Kalends of January, in the Year of our Lord 1585.

A symmetrical, intricate floral or foliate ornament is centered on the page.