9. A blind faith continued afterwards among Protestants also, because they separated faith from charity. For those who separate these cannot but be in ignorance of the truth, and give the name of faith to the mere thought that a thing is so, apart from the internal acknowledgment that it is so. With these also ignorance is the safeguard of their dogmas; for as long as ignorance reigns, together with the persuasion that theological matters transcend the understanding, they can talk without being contradicted, and others can believe that their dogmas are true, and that they themselves understand them.