nor want to do anything but sin, because he is driven and inflamed by the furies of all the vices and dragged down by unquenchable lust into the abyss of depravity. Innumerable are the examples we must omit, since we wish to be brief. But all of them make it sufficiently clear that the customary method of most heresies consists in rejoicing in ‘profane novelties,’ in loathing traditional knowledge, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.11 Conversely, it is proper for Catholics