That the suspended doctrine of the new Academy opposeth the constancie of Christianity. CHAP. 18.
AS for the new Academians, whome Varro auoutcheth to hold no certeinty but this, That all things are vncertaine: the Church of God detesteth these doubts, as madnesses, hauing a most certaine knowledge of the things it appre∣hendeth, although but in small quantity, because of the corruptible body which is a burden to the soule, and because as the Apostle saith, Wee know (but) in part. Besides, it beleeueth the sence in obiects, of which the minde iudgeth by the sen∣sitiue organs, because hee is in a grosse error that taketh all trust from them: It beleeueth also the holy canonicall scriptures, both old and new, from which the iust man hath his faith, by which hee liueth, and wherein (a) wee all walke with-out doubt, as long as wee are in our pilgrimage, and personally absent from God: and this faith being kept firme, wee may lawfully doubt of all such other things as are not manifested vnto vs eyther by sence, reason, scripture, nor testimony of grounded authoritie.
L. VIVES.
WE all walke (a) without doubt] We haue no knowledge of it, but beleeue it as firmely as what wee see with our eyes.