'The extremities of the earth, and all in every part of
it who purely and rightly confess the Lord look directly towards the
most holy Roman Church and its confession and faith, as it were to a sun
of unfailing light, awaiting from it the bright radiance of the sacred
dogmas of our Fathers according to what the six inspired and holy
councils have purely and piously decreed, declaring most expressly the
symbol of faith. For from the coming down of the incarnate Word amongst
us, all the Churches in every part of the world have held that greatest
Church alone as their base and foundation, seeing that according to the
promise of Christ our Saviour, the gates of hell do never prevail
against it, that it has the keys of a right confession and faith in Him,
that it opens the true and only religion to such as approach with
piety, and shuts up and locks every heretical mouth that speaks
injustice against the Most High.'
