if you don't believe when I tell you what is plain, how should you believe, if I tell you of things more sublime?

but as they were not able to withstand the force of that sublime knowledge which appeared in his discourse,

As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature.

Therefore omitting for the present the principles of the christian doctrine, we shall proceed to something more sublime, without mentioning those fundamental articles of repentance from destructive vices, and of divine faith: