That inward impulse is not enthusiasm: it binds only what Apostles and Prophets set before us
Do not fear that admitting this Spirit impulse and instinct in the faithful opens the door to enthusiasms. The Spirit’s force and action in us differs greatly from enthusiasm.
In enthusiasm — to leave other differences aside — God slips into men’s minds and reveals things they never learned or heard from any human teacher. The Spirit, by contrast, urges believers only toward what is set before them from outside as to be believed: the Word of God handed down through the Apostles and Prophets.
Nor is the persuasion that impulse births blind or unaware of itself. The Spirit of God does not drive us to believe before he has first made the mind see the light of those things, so the intellect judges them credible and rightly believable with reason. The truth-marks the mind notes in them still do not equal the certainty the Holy Spirit stamps, and they are not that certainty’s rule and measure.
Latin
X. Non est autem metuendum ne, si impulsus ille et instinctus Spiritus sancti in fidelibus admittatur, locus detur enthusiasmis. Etenim ejusmodi vis et actio Spiritus in nobis multum differt ab enthusiasmo. Nam, ut omittam alia quae possent hic afferri, in enthusiasmo Deus ita se in mentes hominum insinuat, ut ea ipsis revelet, quae a nullo homine didicerunt, vel audiverunt. At Spiritus non instigat fideles ad credendum, nisi ea quae extrinsecus credenda proponuntur, in verbo Dei per Apostolos et Prophetas tradito. Nec etiam persuasio, quam impulsus ille Spiritus generat, potest dici caeca, et sui nescia. Non enim Spiritus Dei ad credendum impellit, nisi illa quorum prius ita lucem cernere fecit, ut ea intellectus judicaverit esse credibilia, atque merito, et cum ratione posse credi, licet, quae in illis notat argumenta veritatis, non exaequent certitudinem quam imprimit Spiritus sanctus, nec sint illius regula, et mensura.