Conclusion II: Scripture dogma not wholly beyond contradiction yet clear by many testimonies and the saints' unanimous tradition

CONCLUSION II. If some dogma happens to occur in the Scriptures that is not wholly beyond controversy and others' contradiction, yet is not only made probable by many Scripture testimonies but also has been so clearly and plainly handed down and believed by all the saints whose writings have reached us, by the strength of those testimoniesiesies, that even laypeople of sound mind can easily demonstrate their unanimous consent — concerning that we confess no pious lover of peace ought to raise controversy, but rather follow the Apostle's warning (1 Corinthians 1:10): "I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." And (Philippians 2:2): "Fulfill my joy, that you be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind."

So we separate ourselves from the Photinians, who indeed sometimes seem to urge the practice of things that are clear and certain, yet meanwhile raise contests even about matters defined from the Church's cradle by very many and most certain Scripture testimonies understood in the simplest way.

From these two prior conclusions, which contain everything each Christian must explicitly know and believe, it is plain we wish to seduce no one: we force on no one our opinions, inventions, subtle interpretations, and consequences, but commend solely this as to be believed which has always been publicly and plainly handed down from Sacred Scripture by God's saints — settling for certain that no one can be in peril for his salvation who exercises himself in these dogmas from the heart and diligently.