1. As all men who live under the Roman sway
engage in military service under you, the Emperors and Princes of the
world, so too do you yourselves owe service to Almighty God and our
holy faith. For salvation is not sure unless everyone worship in
truth the true God, that is the God of the Christians, under Whose sway
are all things; for He alone is the true God, Who is to be worshipped
from the bottom of the heart; for “the gods of the
heathen,” as Scripture says, “are devils.” Ps. xcvi. [xcv.]
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