and to everlasting deliverance, and to their destruction;
they are very guilty for their wiles,
and to them is adjudged according to that which they did,
though our Lord permitted them [to do] the deeds.
Evil were the persecutors and the impious murderers
who slew the martyrs, but nevertheless it became
glory and everlasting worship to the saints,
and the persecutors have perpetual abasement.
There would not have been so many martyrs had there not
been this great persecution
which the devil stirred up, against the Lord's saints,
through his wicked servants who loved heathenism.
God permitteth nevertheless, for His goodness,
that His sun shineth over the sinful heathen,
and He sends His showers of rain both to righteous men
and to the evil, for His great bounty,
and feedeth us all, both evil and good.
God created the heathen, though they know Him not,
but nevertheless they will not be without punishment hereafter,
because they might easily understand the Almighty
by means of the creatures which they see in the world.
Heaven and earth, and other creatures,
sun and moon, magnify their Creator,
and men may discern that He is the great God
alone Almighty, Who created them all.
Now are the heathen, without excuse,
rightly condemned with the devil in hell,
because they did not acknowledge Christ by faith,
Who gave them life, and provided them with sustenance.
One natural law is appointed to all mankind,
that no man may do harm to another man,
even as the Saviour said in His holy gospel;
'That which thou desirest not to befall thyself in thy life,
that do not to another man.' This said the Lord Himself.
But the heathen vex and plunder the Christians,
