7. Neither must you esteem what our Lord said as being contrary to this treatment: “Go ye, teach the nations; baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”20    Matt. xxviii. 19. Because, although this is true and right, and to be observed by all means in the Church, and moreover has been used to be observed, yet it behoves us to consider that invocation of the name of Jesus ought not to be thought futile by us on account of the veneration and power of that very name, in which name all kinds of power are accustomed to be exercised, and occasionally some even by men outside the Church. But to what effect are those words of Christ, who said that He would deny, and not know, those who should say to Him in the day of judgment, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name cast out demons, and in Thy name done many wonderful works,” when He answered them, even with emphasis,21    “Jurejurando.” “I never knew you; depart from me, ye who work iniquity,”22    Mark xiv. 27. unless that it should be shown to us, that even by those who work iniquity might these good works also be done, by the superfluous23    [Query, superabounding?] energy of the name of Christ?  Therefore ought this invocation of the name of Jesus to be received as a certain beginning of the mystery of the Lord common to us and to all others, which may afterwards be filled up with the remaining things. Otherwise such an invocation would not avail if it should remain alone, because after the death of a man in this position there cannot be added to him anything at all, nor supplemented, nor can, in anything, avail him in the day of judgment, when they shall begin to be reproached by our Lord with those things which we have above mentioned, none of whom notwithstanding in this present time may by any man be so hardly and cruelly prohibited from aiding themselves in those ways which we have above shown.

VII. Nec aestimes huic tractatui contrarium esse quod dixit Dominus: Ite, docete Gentes, tinguite eos in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti. (Matt. XXVIII, 19). Quia cum hoc verum et rectum et omnibus modis in Ecclesia observandum sit, et observari quoque solitum sit, tamen considerare oportet quod invocatio nominis Jesu non debet a nobis futilis videri propter venerationem et virtutem ipsius nominis: in quo nomine virtutes omnes solent fieri, et nonnumquam aliquae etiam ab hominibus extraneis. Caeterum quo pertinent illa verba Christi, 1191D qui negaturum se esse dixit, nec nosse eos qui sibi in die judicii dicturi essent: Domine, Domine, nonne in tuo nomine prophetavimus, et in nomine tuo daemonia ejecimus, et in nomine tuo virtutes magnas fecimus, respondendo eis etiam cum jurejurando quia numquam cognovi vos; discedite a me qui operamini iniquitatem (Marc. XIV, 27); nisi ostenderetur nobis nonnumquam etiam ab his qui operarentur iniquitatem, posse per nimiam virtutem nominis Jesu etiam haec fieri? idcircoque debet invocatio 1192A haec nominis Jesu quasi initium quoddam mysterii Dominici commune nobis et caeteris omnibus accipi, quod possit postmodum residuis rebus impleri; alias non profutura talis invocatio cum sola permanserit, quia post mortem ejusmodi hominis non potest ei quidquam omnino adjici, vel suppleri aut in aliquo prodesse die judicii, cum illi a Domino nostro quae supra memoravimus coeperint exprobrari qui tamen universi hodie ut sibi his modis subveniant quibus supra ostendimus, non possunt ab ullo hominum tam dure tamque crudeliter prohiberi.