God providence protects the Order

4. Nor have We been less attentive, on the contrary We have pondered (it) more profoundly, just as the rest of those professors of the Catholic Faith ought to more subtly ponder (it), because God Himself, looking upon the aforesaid order and its observers, has so preserved them with salutary protection from the rancors rising up against them, that the tempestuous wave neither smashed them nor did it terrify the souls of those living in the Order itself, ²⁶ rather do they grow stronger in the vigor of regularity and are increased in the observance of their norms. ²⁷ Nevertheless so that the aforesaid Order pure and separate from whatever things that would break it up into pieces²⁸ may flourish with brightness, just as the friars of the same order gathered in general chapter recently had provided, ²⁹ after Our beloved sons (the minister) general and not a few other ministers provincial of the same order, who had convened in the same chapter, had stood together in Our presence, since (their) intention for a complete remark regarding the same Rule is recognized in the fervent vigor of their spirit; it seemed [right] to Us to close off the ways of biting to bitings of this kind, to declare other doubts which have been able to be seen in the Rule itself, to sow with fuller clarity not a few things declared even by Our predecessors, [and] even in other things touching the Rule itself to provide for the purity of their consciences.