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 he will answer no more questions upon the subject.

Metaphysics having thus been prohibited, my Lord the Admiral returns to theology, and desires to know why God is three persons rather than four or five, or any other number, particularly as musicians account three an imperfect number. The Friar answers, that God is three persons because he is, and moreover that three is a perfect number; but he is astonished at the depth and wisdom of such questions, and his astonishment is increased by the next, which is, Who governed Heaven when God was in the Virgin Mary's womb? The Friar is ready with two solutions, there were the other two persons of the Trinity, in this way the difficulty might be explained, but that in reality there is no difficulty, because the soul is not infused in conception.

Will Antichrist have a guardian angel, or not? Just as well as Judas, but to