To rule by words, requires that such words be manifestly made known, for else they are no laws: for to the nature of laws belongeth a sufficient and clear promulgation, such as may take away the excuse of ignorance; which in the laws of men is but of one only kind, and that is, proclamation or promulgation by the voice of man. But God declareth His laws three ways: by the dictates of “natural reason,” by “revelation,” and by the “voice” of some “man,” to whom by the operation of miracles he procureth credit with the rest. From hence there ariseth a triple word of God, “rational,” “sensible,” and “prophetic”: to which correspondeth a triple hearing, “right reason,” “sense supernatural,” and “faith.” As for sense supernatural, which consisteth in revelation or inspiration, there have not been any universal laws so given, because God speaketh not in that manner but to particular persons, and to divers men divers things.