Ordinarily the Church's consent first moves us; it is still not faith's chief foundation
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We have also shown this: speaking absolutely, we do not need the Church's voice and testimony in order to know and believe Scripture.Still, by the ordinary rule God uses the Church's ministry when he generates in us faith concerning Scripture.The first incentive that ordinarily moves us to receive it as true and divine is the Church's common consent and testimony.
Even so, the Church's voice and authority are not the principal foundation of our faith, nor the last point to which the certainty of the faith that embraces sacred Scripture is to be reduced.
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III. Et hoc a nobis ostensum est, licet, absolute loquendo, non sit opus Ecclesiae voce et testimonio, ut Scripturae notitiam et fidem habeamus, attamen juxta legem ordinariam, Deum Ecclesiae ministerio uti in fide de Scriptura nobis ingeneranda; primumque incitamentum, quo movemur ordinarie ad illam suscipiendam pro vera et divina, communem esse Ecclesiae consensum et testimonium. Neque tamen Ecclesiae vocem et authoritatem esse fidei nostrae praecipuum fundamentum, et illud ad quod tandem reducenda est certitudo fidei qua Scripturam sacram amplectimur.