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FROM AUTHORITY. When we explain how much care that matter has been to God and the angels, to the patriarchs and prophets, and to other saints, or to our ancestors, kings, cities, nations, most wise men, the senate, and the laws.
FROM RELATION to whom those things pertain, whether to those superior to us, or to peers, or to inferiors.
FROM THE EASE of imitating or avoiding evils.
FROM THE DISSIMILARITY of this matter to others.
FROM COUNSEL, because the matter was done deliberately and with dedicated effort, by reviewing the causes.
FROM EXAGGERATING the crime, whether it be foul, cruel, nefarious, tyrannical, or on the contrary, whether it be excellent, mild, human, noble, and royal.
FROM THE NON-ORDINARY. Since the deed is singular.
FROM THE COMPARISON of crimes. By reviewing which is better or worse than another, where, how, and when.
FROM THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE THING. Where we will explain sharply and diligently so that the matter may seem to be acting and being done, by the enumeration of the consequences of things, and of the dangers, and of the inconveniences or goods that follow therefrom.
FROM DEMONSTRATION, we can place the thing itself before the eyes, as if against the Jews we were to show the bloody shroud and the crown of thorns of Christ, and the nails and the cross, and conversely, the garlands, the palm, the miracles, the honor.