Divine Spirit._
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,[446] 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[447] 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.