Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Alas for the Church, that must thus by Bishops be distracted for want of skill in words! Is there no remedy? Binnius confesseth that some Papists think that they meant right, as Durandus did, and that the difference was but in words.

The Council supposeth Elipandus and Faelix to use the word [Adoption] exclusively, as to Christ's Filiation by Generation, as conceived by the Holy Ghost: whereas it is far likelier that they took both Conjunct to be the fundamentum filiationis. God adopting, that is, of his good Will freely creating Christ's Humane Nature, and uniting it to the Divine; called Adoption, because it was God's free act of Love, and not a communication of his Essence, as the eternal Generation is. The Humanity is not God's Essence. And I hope the name of [The Son of Man] used so oft by Christ of himself, is no Heresy. And there appeareth no reason to censure them as denying either the eternal or temporal Generation of Christ.

The Council supposeth Elipandus and Faelix to use the word [Adoption] exclusively, as to Christ's Filiation by Generation, as conceived by the Holy Ghost: whereas it is far likelier that they took both Conjunct to be the fundamentum filiationis. God adopting, that is, of his good Will freely creating Christ's Humane Nature, and uniting it to the Divine; called Adoption, because it was God's free act of Love, and not a communication of his Essence, as the eternal Generation is. The Humanity is not God's Essence. And I hope the name of [The Son of Man] used so oft by Christ of himself, is no Heresie. And there appeareth no reason to censure them as denying either the eternal or temporal Generation of Christ.

But they argue against them,