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This Mediator, having spoken what He judged sufficient first by the
prophets, then by His own lips, and afterwards by the apostles, has
besides produced the Scripture which is called canonical, which has
paramount authority, and to which we yield assent in all matters of
which we ought not to be ignorant, and yet cannot know of ourselves.
For if we attain the knowledge of present objects by the testimony of
our own senses, whether internal or external, then, regarding objects
remote from our own senses, we need others to bring their testimony,
since we cannot know them by our own, and we credit the persons to whom
the objects have been or are sensibly present. Accordingly, as in the
case of visible objects which we have not seen, we trust those who
have, (and likewise with all sensible objects,) so in the case of
things which are perceived 4 by the mind and spirit, i.e., which
are remote from our own interior sense, it behoves us to trust those
who have seen them set in that incorporeal light, or abidingly
contemplate them.
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