One and the other contain the same reasons, the same proofs; and in their conclusions both doctors agree with the judges of Poitiers.
For the Poitiers doctors, for the Archbishop of Embrun, for the ex-chancellor of the University, for all the theologians of the Armagnac party the Maid's case is not a matter of faith.

How could it be so before the Pope and the Council had pronounced judgment concerning it?
Men are free to believe in her or not to believe in her.

But it is a subject of edification; and it behoves men to meditate upon it, not in a spirit of prejudice, persisting in doubt, but with an open mind and according to the Christian faith.

Following the counsel of Gerson, kindly souls will believe that the Maid comes from God, just as they believe that the head of Saint Denys may be venerated by the faithful either in the Cathedral Church of Paris or in the abbey-church of Saint Denys in France.

They will think less of literal than of spiritual truths and they will not sin by inquiring too closely.
In short neither the treatise of Jacques Gelu nor that of Jean Gerson brought much light to the King and his Council.