the Apostles, who have been found worthy to be witnesses of His
revelation in (S. + and preachers of) the knowledge of the Divine
Word, we have heard from the mouth of the Lord Jesus the Christ,
we know truly and say, what is His will and the will of His Father, that
nPm°n no one snould perish, but that all men should believe and live ; for this is
Matt.vi. 10 what He taught us, that we should say when we pray, " Thy will be done on
earth as it is in Heaven," that as the Angels of Heaven and all the Powers
praise God, thus also upon the earth should men praise God. It is His
will therefore to save all men, and this is His delight, that there should be
many who are saved. But he who is contentious, and is an enemy to his
neighbour, diminishes the people of God (S. + for he sends out him whom
he accuses from the Church and diminishes it) and deprives God of the soul
of a man which would have been saved, or by means of his contentiousness
expels and casts himself out from the Church, and thus again he sins against
Matt. xii. God, for God our Saviour hath said thus, " Every one that is not with Me is