Ac si secus
fieri contigerit irritum et innane. Ipsosque Indos et alias gentes verbi
Dei praedicatione et exemplo bonae vitae ad dictam Fidem Christi invitandos
fore, et praesentium literarum transumptis manu alicuius Notarii publici
subscriptis, ac sigillo alicuius personae in dignitate Ecclesiastica
constitutae munitis, eamdem fidem adhibendam esse, quas originalibus
adhiberetur auctoritate Apostolice per praesentes litteras decernimus et
declaramus. Non obstantibus praemissis, caeterisque contrariis
quibuscumque.

Datum Romae Anno Domini millessimo quingentessimo trigessimo septimo.
Quarto nonas Junii Pontificatus nostri, Anno tertio.

THE BULLSublimis Deus

Translation

Paul III Pope To all faithful Christians to whom this writing may come,
health in Christ our Lord and the apostolic benediction.

The sublime God so loved the human race that He created man in such wise
that he might participate, not only in the good that other creatures
enjoy, but endowed him with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and
invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face; and since man,
according to the testimony of the sacred scriptures, has been created to
enjoy eternal life and happiness, which none may obtain save through faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ, it is necessary that he should possess the
nature and faculties enabling him to receive that faith; and that whoever
is thus endowed should be capable of receiving that same faith. Nor is it
credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire
the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him
to receive it. Hence Christ, who is the Truth itself, that has never
failed and can never fail, said to the preachers of the faith whom He
chose for that office "Go ye and teach all nations." He said all, without
exception, for all are capable of receiving the doctrines of the faith.

The enemy of the human race, who opposes all good deeds in order to bring
men to destruction, beholding and envying this, invented a means never
before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of
Salvation to the people: he inspired his satellites who, to please him,
have not hesitated to publish abroad that the Indians of the West and the
South, and other people of whom We have recent knowledge should be treated
as dumb brutes created for our service, pretending th