Apology Against the Calumnies of the Louvain Theologians

most numerous and serious matters, to accommodate me for a little while, and that you might be willing to weigh our writings and responses, until you learn the whole case. And do not take it amiss if (as many will perhaps say) I appoint you as the patron of such an odious argument. For I do not think that those things are troublesome or odious to you, which defend the causes of faith and piety against perfidious forgers and impious sycophants. May God bring it about that His church, purged from all the impiety of heretics and the shadows of the sophists, may be restored to its pristine splendor, He who prospers you and preserves you safe, and fills and refills you with all good things. Farewell most happily. A small woodcut tailpiece ornament depicts a heart shape topped with a stylized trefoil or fleur-de-lis, common in early printed books to signify sincerity or religious devotion.