Clement VI, 1342-1352

558. 11 . . . That with the certainty of faith excepted there was not another certainty except the certainty of the first principle, or that which can be resolved into the first principle.

559. 14 . . . That we do not know clearly that other things can be from God because of some effect—that some cause works efficiently which is not God—that some efficient cause is or can be natural.

560. 15 . . . That we do not know clearly whether any effect is or can be produced naturally.

561. 17 . . . That we do not know clearly that in any production the subject concurs.

562. 21 . . . That in any demonstrated matter whatever no one knows clearly that in truth it surpasses all others in nobility.

563. 22 . . . That in any demonstrated matter no one knows clearly that this thing is not God, if by God we understand the most noble substance.

564. 25 . . . That one does not know clearly that in truth it can be reasonably conceded, "if any matter has been produced, God has been produced."

565. 26 . . . That it cannot be shown clearly that in truth any matter at all is eternal.

566. 30 . . . That these consequences are not clear: "An act of understanding exists; therefore intelligence exists. An act of willing exists, therefore will exists."

567. 31 . . . That it cannot be shown clearly that in truth all things which are apparent are true.

568. 32 . . . That God and the creature are not something.

569. 40 . . . That whatever exists in the universe is better that, than not that.

570. 53 . . . That this is the first principle and not another: "If something is, it is something."

The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff¹

[From the letter "Super quibusdam" to the Consolator, the Catholicon of the Armenians, Sept. 20, 1351]

570a. 3 . . . We ask: In the first place, whether you and the Church of the Armenians which is obedient to you, believe that all those who in baptism have received the same Catholic faith, and afterwards have withdrawn and will withdraw in the future from the communion of this same Roman Church, which one alone is Catholic, are schismatic and heretical, if they remain obstinately separated from the faith of this Roman Church.

570b. In the second place, we ask whether you and the Armenians obedient to