The ije. reule or supposicioun is this: Al the kun|nyng or knowing gete and had in the firste of these ij. maners now seid is clepid Philsophie, bi cause it is had bi labour of kindeli witt without telling or witnessing fro aboue kinde; and al the kunnyng or knowing gete and had in the ije. now seid maner is credence [crdence, MS.] or feith, and is dewli to be clepid Pure Divynite or Pure Theologie, forto speke propirli of divynite and theologie as it is dyuerse fro philsophie. This reule is open bi what y haue write in the book clepid The [The in a later hand.] iust apprising of Doctouris, and mai be proued thus. Sum kunnyng gete bi mannys resoning, with|out certifiyng ther of fro aboue kinde, is to be clepid Philsophie; and skile is noon whi eny oon such kunning or knowing schulde be seid Philsophie, more than ech other such kunnyng or knowing schulde be clepid Philsophie. Wherfore ech kunnyng or knowing, getun and had bi labour of mannis kindeli resoun without the seid affermyng and certifiyng mad ther upon fro God aboue, is to be clepid Philsophie. And if this be trewe, thanne, (sithen ech kunnyng or knowing of mannis vndirstonding is gete and had in this now seid maner, or ellis in certifiyng and assercioun maad fro God as the firste reule seid,) it muste nedis folewe that if eny kunnyng or knowing is to be clepid propirli divynyte (as he is dyuers fro philsophie), he must be oonli the kunnyng or knowing gete and had in the ije. now seid maner, that is to seie, bi assercioun and certificacioun and reuelacioun mad fro God to man. And so it is open that the ije. reule is trewe.
The iije. reule or supposicioun is this: If a treuthe be knowen bi doom of resoun, thanne it is knowen or sureli and sikirli; or it is knowen oonli probabili
