thereof, from the very Popish VVriters themselves, as is to bee seene by diuerse of them, in Beoano-Ba∣culus.
Therfore, I will here instance in one onely, and that no meane one, viz. Stapleton, who in his second admo∣nition to Maister Dr. Whitakers, set before his Triplica∣tion, writeth thus: In libro meo 3. Principior ŭ fidei, Spi∣ritus sancti internam persuasionem, ad quodlibet fidei ob∣iectum credendum, ita necessariam, ita efficacem esse do∣cui, vt nec absque illa, quicquam a quoquam creds possit, et∣si milliei Ecclesia attestetur: et per illam solam quodlibet credendum credi queat, tacente prorsus, et non audita Eccle∣sia. In my 8. booke of the Principles of faith, I have taught, that the invvard persuasion of the holy Ghost is so necessa∣rie, and so effectuall for the belieuing of euery obiect of faith, that vvithout it, neither can any thing bee belieued by any man, though the Church testified vvith it a thou∣sand times; and by it alone any thing that is to be belieued, may be belieued, though the Church kept silence, and never vvere heard.
Is not the force of this truth great, and must needs preuaile, sith the Aduersaries themselues, write so fully and directly for it?
To shut vp this point, and to shut the Pope cleane out, from this supreme Iudgeship, Panormitan the Abbat, in De Elect. et Elect potest. ca. Signisicasti; very iudici∣ously writeth thus: Plus credendum est vni priuato fi∣deli, quam toti Concitio et Papa, si meliorem habeat au∣thoritatem, velrationem. Wee ought to giue more credit to one priuate lay man, then to the vvhole Councell, and the Pope, if hee bring better authoritie, and more rea∣son.