The prelates of the Church insist that the understanding is to be kept under obedience to faith; nay, they say that a faith in what is unknown, which is a blind or nocturnal faith, is properly faith. This is the first paradox. For faith belongs to truth, and truth to faith; and, in order that truth may belong to faith, it must be in its own light and be seen in that light; otherwise, what is false could be believed. The paradoxes proceeding from such a faith are many; as, that God the Father begat a Son from eternity, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both, and each of these three is a Person by Himself and is God; that the Lord was from the mother both as to His soul and body; that these three Persons, thus three Gods, created the universe that one of them descended and assumed the Human in order to reconcile the Father, and thus to save mankind; that those who by grace obtain faith and believe these paradoxes are saved by the imputation, application and transfer of His justice to themselves; that a man, at his first reception of this faith, is like a statue, stock or stone, and that faith flows in by the mere hearing of the Word; that faith alone is the means of salvation without the works of the law, and that it is not formed from charity; that it produces remission of sins without previous repentance; that from remission of sins alone an impenitent man is justified, regenerated and sanctified; that afterwards charity, good works and renewal follow spontaneously besides many similar things which, like offspring generated from an illegitimate bed, have all issued from the doctrine founded on the idea of three Gods.