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

The letters patent of the first whom God has raised up in our time are signed and sealed by you yourselves, as has been said above, although the Lord has since amended and corrected the enormous defects that were in them. As for the others, the truth of their doctrine, and—notwithstanding your very false and all too impudent calumnies—the integrity of their life (which are the fruits by which Jesus Christ teaches us to know true Pastors, as opposed to wolves dressed in sheep's clothing, Matthew 7:16, and especially you newcomers, who have nibbled more from the houses of widows and all other kinds of property in forty years than all the other locusts have done in four hundred years), along with the efficacy of their preaching, by which they have snatched so many poor souls from between your paws, testify to the spirit by which they were introduced, and govern themselves in the house of God, following the example of St. Paul, who called the Corinthians the seal of his Apostleship (1 Cor. 9:2). Finally, the approval and voluntary election of the Churches to choose and receive them as their Pastors entirely justifies their act and the defect of their preceding vocation, which they had received from you, the usurpers of the house of God, and has rendered