Durandus in his Preface is wholly for the excellency and sufficiency of the Scriptures. Three ways, he saith, God revealeth himself and other things to man: The lowest way is by the book of the creatures (so heathens may know him.) The highest is by manifest Vision (as in heaven): and the middle way is in the Book of holy Scripture, without which there is no coming to the highest way.] And going on to extol the Scripture, he citeth Jeromes words ad Paulinum, [Let us learn on earth the knowledge of those things which will abide with ⟨p. 211⟩us in heaven:] But this is only (saith he) in the holy Scripture.] And after ex Hierom. ad Marcell. [If Reason be brought against the authority of the Scriptures, how acute soever it is, it cannot be true:] And after [We must speak of the mystery of Christ, and universally of those things that merely concern faith, conformably to what the holy Scripture delivereth: So Christ, John 5. Search the Scriptures, It is they that testify of me. If any observe not this, he speaks not of the mystery of Christ, and of other things directly touching faith as he ought, but falls into that of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 8. If any man think he knoweth any thing, he yet knoweth nothing as he ought to know. For the measure is not to exceed the measure of faith: of which the Apostle bids us, Rom. 12. Not to be wiser then we ought to be, but to be wise to sobriety, and as God hath divided to every man the measure of faith. Which Measure consisteth in two things; to wit, that we subtract not from faith that which is of faith, nor (N.B.) attribute that to faith which is not of faith: For by either of these ways, the measure of faith is exceeded, and men deviate from the continence of the sacred Scripture, which expresseth the measure of faith.] ⟨p. 212⟩(That is, from the full sufficiency of the Scripture measure:) [And this measure, by Gods assistance, we will hold, that we may write or teach nothing dissonant to the holy Scripture. But if by ignorance or inadvertency, we should write any thing dissonant, let it be taken ipso facto as not written.] This is a confession of the Religion of the Protestants. And though he adjoin a submission to the Roman Church, because he was bred in it, it is only as to an interpreter of doubtful Texts of Scripture: So that the sufficiency of our Rule and measure of faith is granted by him, and zealously asserted;
Durandus in his Preface is wholly for the excellency and sufficiency of the Scriptures. Three wayes, he saith, God revealeth himself and other things to man: The lowest way is by the book of the creatures (so heathens may know him.) The highest is by manifest Vision (as in heaven): and the middle way is in the Book of holy Scripture, without which there is no coming to the highest way.] And going on to extoll the Scripture, he citeth Ieromes words ad Paulinum, [Let us learn on earth the knowledge of those things which will abide with ⟨p. 211⟩us in heaven:] But this is only (saith he) in the holy Scripture.] And after ex Hierom. ad Marcell. [If Reason be brought against the authority of the Scriptures, how acute soever it is, it cannot be true:] And after [We must speak of the mysterie of Christ, and universally of those things that meerly concern faith, conformably to what the holy Scripture delivereth: So Christ, Iohn 5. Search the Scriptures, It is they that testifie of me. If any observe not this, he speaks not of the mysterie of Christ, and of other things directly touching faith as he ought, but falls into that of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 8. If any man think he knoweth any thing, he yet knoweth nothing as he ought to know. For the measure is not to exceed the measure of faith: of which the Apostle bids us, Rom. 12. Not to be wiser then we ought to be, but to be wise to sobriety, and as God hath divided to every man the measure of faith. Which Measure consisteth in two things; to wit, that we subtract not from faith that which is of faith, nor (N.B.) attribute that to faith which is not of faith: For by either of these wayes, the measure of faith is exceeded, and men deviate from the continence of the sacred Scripture, which expresseth the measure of faith.] ⟨p. 212⟩(That is, from the full sufficiency of the Scripture measure:) [And this measure, by Gods assistance, we will hold, that we may write or teach nothing dissonant to the holy Scripture. But if by ignorance or inadvertency, we should write any thing dissonant, let it be taken ipso facto as not written.] This is a confession of the Religion of the Protestants. And though he adjoyn a submission to the Roman Church, because he was bred in it, it is only as to an interpreter of doubtfull Texts of Scripture: So that the sufficiency of our Rule and measure of faith is granted by him, and zealously asserted;
