Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

of Berne, Ambrosius Blaurer in Constance, Peter Martyr in Italy, Jacques Fabri in Paris, and several others. You will reply to that that they abused their vocation. Indeed, because the true usage is to you an abuse, and the abuse is to you a usage. But at the very least you remain short on this point that you put upon them against the truth, that they usurped the authority and office of teaching without a vocation, if you do not want to degrade yourselves, who have no other title than they did. And by the same means you are answered regarding what you ask them for letters patent of their vocation.

And as for several others whom we do not wish to deny entered the ministry by another much better entrance, we maintain that whenever the order and right administration of the Church has fallen into the hands of those whom Scripture calls wolves and brigands, everything is disordered, as has happened for some centuries by this child of perdition seated in the temple of God, and elevating himself above God himself: then the Lord, remembering his mercies after his just judgments, has raised up, whether from the midst of the false pastors themselves or from the number of others, those whom it pleased him, filling them