Canon 1: That the decision of all controversies concerning religion ought to be sought from the Sacred Scriptures...

Canon 2: That in judging this controversy, as in any other, the state of the question is first to be established and precisely circumscribed...

Canon 3: Every interpretation ought to confirm, not dissolve or undermine, the consensus of the primary heads of Christian doctrine...

Canon 4: Every interpretation of words is to be accommodated to the nature of the thing which is expounded by those words...

Canon 5: That interpretation is chiefly to be approved and embraced which the collation of similar places approveth, confirmeth, and illustrateth...