PRAEFATIO.

everyone? For we would not be ashamed to profess our faith publicly, even if any infamy had to be endured, or the spittle of our adversaries had to be received upon our faces. But since God does not command that we should deliberately throw ourselves into the mouths of wolves—but rather warns us to be prudent, so that we do not provoke their rage—why should it not be permissible to be in covered places without tumult and occasion for strife? Although we do not seem to need a longer defense, since this cause is not peculiar to us, but rather the Apostles and Martyrs are being attacked in our person. For they did not have temples and public places in their power in which they could preach, Matthew 10:16