As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.