He expresses the new mood using the language of reason and probability: “No one ought to tempt God when he has rational courses of action. . . . If the miracles the Lord promised in the Gospel . . . are not guaranteed (nec sunt in necessitate) how can these ordeal miracles be guaranteed to happen or have their result? . . . In doubtful cases sentence should be withheld, especially in capital cases, where there should be no proceeding merely conjecturally or probably but only judging with reasons transparent and clearer than light.”
