They make not truth, but probability.
Even Arius and Pelagius durst provoke
To what the centuries preceding spoke:[34]
Such difference is there in an oft-told tale;
But truth by its own sinews will prevail.
Tradition written, therefore, more commends
Authority, than what from voice descends;
And this, as perfect as its kind can be,
Rolls down to us the sacred history;
Which from the universal church received,