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Quid est hoc quod dict nobis? Modicum, et non videbitis me ; 
et tterum, modicum, et videbitis me, &c. 
7. Upon this I have insisted the more, in a of 
the great and blessed use thereof; for this point well 
laboured and defined of would in my judgement be an 
opiate to stay and bridle not only the vanity of curious 
speculations, wherewith the schools labour, but the fury 
of controversies, wherewith the church laboureth. For it 
cannot but open men’s eyes, to see that many contro- 
versies do merely pertain to that which is either not re- 
vealed or positive; and that many others do grow upon 
weak and obscure inferences or derivations: which latter 
sort, if men would revive the blessed style of that great 
doctor of the Gentiles, would be carried thus, ego, non '’ 
dominus ; and again, secundum consilium meum, in opinions 
and counsels, and not in positions and oppositions. 
But men are now over-ready to usurp the style, 2on ego, 
sed dominus ; and not so only, but to bind it with the 
thunder and denunciation of curses and anathemas, to the 
terror of those which have not sufficiently learned out of 
Salomon, that Zhe causeless curse shall not come. 
8. Divinity hath two principal parts; the matter in- 
formed or revealed, and the nature of the information 
or revelation: and with the latter we will begin, because 
it hath most coherence with that which we have now last 
handled. The nature of the information consisteth of 
three branches; the limits of the information, the suffici- 
ency of the information, and the acquiring or obtaining 
the information. Unto the limits of the information be- 
long these considerations ; how far forth particular per- 
sons continue to be inspired; how far forth the Church is 
inspired; and how far forth reason may be used: the 
last point whereof I have noted as deficient. Unto the 
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