Authoritie is here to be taken for any testimony worthy of credite.
Affirmatiuely thus: the learned Philosophers say that there bee foure elements, whereof all other things are mixt and compounded: Ergo, it is true. Christ saith that whosoeuer is baptized, and beleeueth in him, shall be saued: Ergo, it is true.
Whatsoeuer is allowed by the most part of the wise and learned, is to bee beleeued as a thing probable, neither ought we rashly to discent from their opinion and iudgement. A∣gaine, euery man is to be beleeued in his owne Art: but for so much as Authority is two-fold (that is to say) diuine and hu∣mane, and that all arguments fetched from this place be not of like value, for some be true and infallible, some probable, and some Sophisticall: this Table therefore here following shall plainely set foorth euery kinde by it selfe, whereby you shall easily discerne the one from the other.