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D. But is there no way possible to bring them fairly off, in this gross business of Transubstantiation, ⟨p. 184⟩without putting them upon the disclaiming of the Popes and General Councils Infallibility?

R. I am not bound to devise accommodations to strengthen them in their other errors, if I could. But yet I would cure any error in any, though they intend their own cure to an evil end. I cannot be persuaded but their understanding men are sorry at the heart that the Lateran Council hath drawn them into such a snare, by making Transubstantiation an Article of their faith; and that they are very angry at them, and wish that it had never been done: but being done they must take on them to believe it, lest they pull down with their foundation all their fabric. I doubt not but they are troubled and ashamed to read the Schoolmens disputes of Transubstantiation, exposing Christianity to the Infidels scorn, which this Council hath most occasioned. I know not how to bring them off, unless they will hearken to what Dr. Taylor in his Dissuasive from Popery, and Dr. Heylin, and Dr. Pierson and Dr. Gunning in the Dispute, have said against the Validity of that Lateran Council (could they but spare the Canon for deposing Temporal Lords, and dispossessing them of their Dominions, and absolving all their Papists subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and exterminating the rest; Yea it would be more serviceable to them at last with Princes, to retract that also, than to keep it.) Their best way is to take the help of these pretences, and condemn the contrary Reasons of Mr. Terret and his fellow Disputant against the foresaid Doctors, ⟨p. 185⟩and expunge that Council out of Binnius, Surius and the rest who number it with the approved Councils; and because Matth. Paris and others say that some at the Council thought the Canons burdensome, and they were brought in by the Pope, and hastily read, &c. therefore say, that They were not passed at least Conciliariter, which you know is a word that serveth their turn against another Council which they dislike.