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I Only Ask In All Kindness That The Man Who Wishes At This Time To Have My Books Will By No Means Let Them Be A Hindrance To His Own Study Of The Scriptures, But Read Them As I Read The Orders And The Ordures Of The Pope And The Books Of The Sophists.

It Is An Unsufferable Blasphemy To Reject The Public Ministry Or To Say That People Can Become Holy Without Sermons And Church. This Involves A Destruction Of The Church And Rebellion Against Ecclesiastical Order; Such Upheavals Must Be Warded Off And Punished Like All Other Revolts.

I Believe That The Devil Has Destroyed Many Good Books Of The Church, As, Aforetime, He Killed And Crushed Many Holy Persons, The Memory Of Whom Has Now Passed Away; But The Bible He Was Fain To Leave Subsisting.

The Winds Are Nothing Else But Good Or Bad Spirits. Hark! How The Devil Is Puffing And Blowing.

The Multitude Of Books Is A Great Evil. There Is No Limit To This Fever For Writing.