So far: Scripture bears its own splendor as moral evidence, not as demonstration
So far we have set out our judgment on Scripture's authority as distinctly and clearly as we could. To draw the whole into a few words, we have taught first that Scripture bears a splendor of its own and sends out various rays of divinity. Those rays can strike and move a mind rightly disposed, and so Scripture proves itself.
Yet that light is not evidence in the strict sense — not the kind that belongs to things known of themselves, or that fall under demonstration, as in mathematics and metaphysics. It is only a moral evidence. It consists entirely in this: Scripture is recommended by so many probable arguments, and carries in itself so many conspicuous marks of divinity, that a pious and prudent person is effectively led to believe it true and divine — even though its divine authority is not self-evident, and cannot be demonstrated.
Latin
I. Hactenus exposuimus, quam distincte et clare a nobis fieri potuit, nostram de authoritate Scripturae sententiam. Atque, ut rem totam in pauca contrahamus, docuimus 1. Scripturam proprio quodam splendore gerere, et varios divinitatis radios emittere, quibus mentem rite dispositam ferire et afficere possit: et ita ipsi se probare. Lucem tamen illam non esse evidentiam proprie dictam, qualis est eorum, quae sunt per se nota, aut sub demonstrationem cadunt, ut cernitur in rebus Mathematicis et Metaphysicis: sed solummodo quandam moralem evidentiam, quae tota in eo consistit quod Scriptura tam multis et tam probabilibus argumentis suadetur, et habet in se tot et tam insignes divinitatis notas, ut inde vir pius et prudens efficaciter inducatur ut credat illam esse veram et divinam: quamvis divina illius authoritas non sit res per se nota, aut etiam quae demonstrari possit.