1.  My occupations are very numerous, and my mind is full of many anxious cares, but I have never forgotten you, my dear friends, ever praying my God for your constancy in the faith, wherein ye stand and have your boasting in the hope of the glory of God.  Truly nowadays it is hard to find, and extraordinary to see, a Church pure, unharmed by the troubles of the times, and preserving the apostolic doctrine in all its integrity and completeness.  Such is your Church shewn at this present time by Him who in every generation makes manifest them that are worthy of His calling.  May the Lord grant to you the blessings of Jerusalem which is above, in return for your flinging back at the heads of the liars their slanders against me, and your refusal to allow them entry into your hearts.  I know, and am persuaded in the Lord, that “your reward is great in heaven,” Matt. v. 12. even on account of this very conduct.  For you have wisely concluded among yourselves, as indeed is the truth, that the men who are “rewarding me evil for good, and hatred for my love,” Ps. cix. 5. are accusing me now for the very same points which they are found to have themselves confessed and subscribed.