[Liber sextus Decretalium]

There is a certain measure of faith to which everyone is bound and which is sufficient for simple people and perhaps even for all laypeople. Namely, it is necessary for every adult, attending to his own faith, to believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of all good things. And it is necessary for them to believe the other articles implicitly by believing everything that the Catholic Church teaches. Prelates, however, ought to exceed this measure, even if they lead a religious life; they ought to know the articles of faith and the greater certainty which is contained in the creed, otherwise they would not believe in God, for "whoever wishes to be saved, etc." Item, in the first epistle of Timothy, chapter 4. Then one ought to know more, what it is, and also one ought to know whence so many persons are, and the reason for the persons, etc. This exposition says that the world here indicates that I have failed in all things regarding the mission; then it ought to have been through persuasion, and it is so. Thus it is necessary, or in another case we do not deny it, where through rule, beyond one's own persuasion, and from the cause also of the rank, intermixed? people in whom there is suspicion of remission, regarding the defect.

Regarding the chosen or the lower ones, it is enough if they are poor, so that they cannot attend to study because they have no means for expenses, because it is necessary for them to create their livelihood with their own hands, which is sufficient for them just as it is for the simple and the laypeople. And it is a loss of time for anyone to have more, because it is necessary for them to believe what others do for the salvation of Christ. Thomas, where it is said that laypeople ought to be in obedience, and it is necessary to send forth the joy of the interior, or the penalties of the better, in this. It intends that in them there is nothing except that it is given to merit, so that, just as all other works belong to merit, so also does charity. Thus, by exhibiting the necessary things in subsisting by helping the poor or guests, and the same would be for other good works. In many things, implicit faith is valid, such as this, that if someone has it, he believes something against the truth. But we speak not of a rational man of greater state, lest he perish, just as... or because the Church's own was then... etc.

They are bound so long as this is... he believes he does not defend. Thomas says that they believe in the Catholic way to believe thus, and they place their work of faith under the Church, because if they are wrong in their opinion, then that faith is not their own faith, but the faith of the Church, provided they are not obstinate in the faith, etc. Question 22, 1. This is the faith which is called dythes? here.