1. The Queen of the South, as we read in the Book of the Kings, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon. 1 Kings x. 1. Likewise King Hiram sent to Solomon that he might prove him. 1 Kings v. 1. So also your sacred Majesty, following these examples of old time, has decreed to hear my confession of faith. But I am no Solomon, that you should wonder at my wisdom, and your Majesty is not the sovereign of a single people; it is the Augustus, ruler of the whole world, that has commanded the setting forth of the Faith in a book, not for your instruction, but for your approval.