de veris ac falsis Doctoribus.

it must be understood that when Athanasius then adds, "The Catholic faith, however, is this, etc.," he certainly did not mean to signify (as some have most lightly feigned) that the entire Catholic faith, which it is necessary to keep entire for salvation, is contained only in those articles which he reviews concerning the mystery of the most holy Trinity and the Incarnation: but he signifies, according to his purpose, that those articles also pertain in the highest degree to the Catholic faith (which indeed extends much more broadly). If, therefore, it is necessary to judge regarding the truth of the entire doctrine of faith—so that, led by the indication of doctrine, you may prudently assent to these teachers rather than those—I beseech you, preaching Sectarii sectarians, what will those then do who cannot judge the doctrine itself by itself? What, I ask, will those princes do who have been involved, or wish to be involved, in nothing less than theological disputations? What will the nobles do? What the merchants? What the craftsmen? What the unlettered commoners? What even the peasants themselves? What, one and all, the unlearned, who, although they may be instructed by the more learned and may be able to simply embrace and believe in their hearts whatever must be believed: yet, in so many controversial questions of faith today, in