COROLLARY V.
It conduces not a little to increasing and amplifying the authority of the Catholic profession if it is said to be necessary, divinely revealed, pertaining to the deposit of faith, supported by certain testimonies of sacred Scripture, and resting upon indubitable arguments, by those to whom belong both the right of judging and a dignity by which they may win trust and assent for themselves. For not all those things which the Catholic name professes are of one and the same nature and account; nor do we believe in the same manner that Christ is θεάνθρωπον, the God-man, and judge that the Mother of God was advanced together with her body to heavenly beatitude. But the consensus of which we are treating, and which we have established by so great a cloud of witnesses, is of such a kind that it is called certain and ascertained1, that it is asserted by the oracles of divine Scripture2—
—that it is approved by liturgical monuments3, that it is declared to be contained in the deposit of revelation4, and that arguments of every kind are employed to vindicate it5. It is therefore a consensus to which the greatest weight of authority must be attributed, and by which we know not only what is true concerning the salvific will of God and the amplitude of the order of restoration, but also what must be believed concerning each head of doctrine.