M. Hardinge. The .32. Diuision.
Yet al standeth not in vnderstandinge.* 1.1 S Augustine saithe notably, Turbam non intelligendi viuacitas, sed credendi simplicitas tutissimam facit. That as for the common people, it is not the quickenesse of vnderstandinge, but the simplicitie of beleuinge, that maketh them safest of al. And in another place,* 1.2 Si propter eos solos Christus mortuus est, qui certa intelligent••a pos∣sunt ista disceinere, penè frustra in Ecclesia laboramus. If Christe (saithe he) died onely for them, whiche canne with certaine, or sure vnderstandinge, discerne these thinges (concerninge God) then is the laboure, we take in the Churche, in maner in vaine. God requireth not so muche of vs, how muche we vnderstande, as howe muche we beleeue, and through belefe, howe muche we loue. And when we shal al appeare before Christ, in that dreadeful daie of Iudgemente, 84* 1.3 we shal not be re∣quired to geue an accompte of our vnderstandinge, but, faithe presupposed, of our Charitie.