THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER

Because the Messenger had in the beginning shewed himself desirous and greedy upon the text of scripture, with little force of the old fathers’ glosses, and with dispraise of philosophie and almost all the seven liberal sciences, the author therefore incidentally sheweth what harm hath happed sometime to fall to divers of those young men whom he hath knowen to give their study to the scripture only, with contempt of logic and other secular science, and little regard of the old interpreters. Wherefore the author sheweth that in the study of scripture the sure way is, with virtue and prayer, first, to use the judgment of natural reason, whereunto secular literature helpeth much. And, secondly, the comments of holy doctors. And, thirdly, above all thing, the articles of the Catholic faith received and believed through the church of Christ.