Inclinations as persuasive arguments; variety and use; occasion can also serve as argument
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X.Inclinations toward believing are arguments by which unbelievers are moved to acknowledge the Christian religion as credible and, by human persuasion, more probable than all others.Elsewhere they are called motives.
XI.Their variety and use must be considered.Often an occasion is not only in the place of an occasion but also of an argument.So the Church, proposing the Scriptures, moves as an argument when I consider so many cultivated nations embracing them with one consent as divinely revealed.The same holds for miracles and martyrdoms: A religion confirmed by miracles, and for which people face death, cannot be empty.
Latin
X. Inclinationes ad credendum sunt argumenta, quibus infideles moventur… ut religionem Christianam credibilem… agnoscant; alias motivae dicuntur.
XI. Consideranda earum varietas & usus. Saepe occasio non tantum est loco occasionis, sed & argumenti… Religio quae miraculis confirmatur & pro qua homines mortem oppetunt non potest esse vana.