Third sign: against pagans the early Christians owned one God and no subordinate cult
Further, the pagan philosophers professed to acknowledge only one supreme God and said that the others they called gods were servants of that one supreme deity, worshiped only in second place after him. They charged the Christians with being content to worship the supreme God and neglecting the lesser powers under him, to whom, they said, a veneration of their own was also due.
Those early Christians frankly admitted that they did in fact worship only one supreme God, and they defended this as lawful and right. They did not grant that even the smallest part of religious worship was owed to God's good and holy servants, nor did they divide religious worship into supreme and subordinate, or absolute and relative. Yet honesty, charity, and prudence would have required exactly that of them if they had held the same view of the worship of saints and angels as the present Roman Church.
Latin
LXIII. Praeterea cum Gentium sapientes unum tantum summum Deum agnoscere se profiterentur, alios vero quos Deos vocabant unici illius summi numinis esse Ministros, & secundo solum post eum loco coli: ac Christianis objicerent quod supremi illius Dei cultu contenti, negligerent inferiores sub illo potestates, quibus tamen sua quoque veneratio debetur: veteres illi Christiani bona fide agnoverunt se revera tantum unum summum Deum colere, idque tanquam legitimum & rectum defenderunt; nec vel minimam cultus religiosi partem ipsis bonis & Sanctis Dei Ministris debitam esse concesserunt, aut cultum Religiosum in summum & subalternum, vel absolutum atque relativum distinxerunt: Quod tamen ab ipsis postulabat candor, charitas, atque prudentia, si de Sanctorum & Angelorum cultu idem cum hodierna Ecclesia Romana sensissent.