come to agree with the account of the Church of 
and every Year^ during this time of Forty Years. Anil 
be as thisprefent Year 1645. andasthofeof 1^45. and 
1547. will be in the ufual and ordinary computation. 
HI. J Calculation of the Credibility of Human Tefimony^ 
Moral Certitude Abfolute^ is that in which the 
Mind of Man entirely acquiefces, requiring no 
further Affurance : As if one in whom I abfolutcly con- 
fide, fliall bring me word of 1200 / accruing to me 
byGift^or aShipsArrival 5 and for which therefore I would 
not give the leaft valuable Confideration to be EofurM. 
Moral Certitude Irjcomfleat^ has its feveral Degrees 
to be eftimated by the Proportion it bears to the Abfolute. 
As if one in whom I have that degree of Confidence;^ as 
that I would not give above One in Six to be enfur'd of 
the Truth of what he fays, fhall inform me, as above, 
concerning 1200 / : I may then reckon that I have as 
good as the Abfolute Certainty of a looo /, or five fixths 
of Abfolute Certainty for the whole Summ. 
The CrediBHity oitny Reporter is to be rated (i) by 
his Integrity y or Fidelity 5 and (i) by bis Ability : and 
a double Ability is to be confidered 5 both that of Ap'^ 
frehendingy what is delivered 3 and alfo Retaining it 
afterwards, till it be tranfmitted. 
" What follows concerning the Degrees of Credi- 
bility, is divided into Tot^r Propefitions. The T wo Firft^ 
" rcfpeift the Reporters of the Narrative-, as they either 
/*Tranfmit Suecefflvely^ or Atteft Concurrently: the Tbird^ 
" the Subject of it ; as it ftiay confift of feveral Articles : 
" and the Fourth^ joins thofe three Confiderations to- 
gether, exemplifying them in Or^l and in mitten 
*^ Tradition. 
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