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Quid est hoc quod didt nobis ? Modictim, einon videbitis me; 

 et iterum, modicum, et videbitis me, &c. 



7. Upon this I have insisted the more, in regard 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 

 domrnus; 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, non 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 The 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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