Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

R. The best shifts that I know are, 1. To do as they do about the condemning of Pope Honoririus as a Heretic. They say that a General Council and Pope too may err in a matter of fact; and so they did in judging of Honorius his meaning: So they may say, that the Council of Trent did decree this as an Article of faith, only because they thought that the Church so held it: which was because they thought that the General approved Council of Lateran had so decreed it▪ But now finding that it was not so decreed there, the error in matter of fact ceasing, which was the supposition, the doctrinal error proveth to be no Article of faith, or Conciliariter decretum. 2. Or if this will not do, they are best yet stretch the words of Rome and Trent, to a more tolerable signification, and say, That it is not the ceasing of the substance of Bread and Wine which is meant; but the changing it into a Relative new form: And so, as the Whole substance ⟨p. 186⟩of a man is changed from being a mere Common man, into a King, a Bishop, a Doctor, without any cessation of his Humanity; but only quia forma ultima denominat, he is not any more to be called merely A Man, but A King, A Bishop, &c. Or, as the whole substance of a piece of Gold is changed into Currant Coin by the Kings Stamp, &c. So the whole substance of Bread is turned into the (Representative) Body of Christ, and the whole substance of Wine into his (Representative) blood; which change they call Transubstantiation. But why should I give counsel to men that will not thank me for it, and that obstinately refuse much better?

R. The best shifts that I know are, 1. To do as they do about the condemning of Pope Honoririus as a Heretick. They say that a General Council and Pope too may err in a matter of fact; and so they did in judging of Honorius his meaning: So they may say, that the Council of Trent did decree this as an Article of faith, only because they thought that the Church so held it: which was because they thought that the General approved Council of Laterane had so decreed it▪ But now finding that it was not so decreed there, the error in matter of fact ceasing, which was the supposition, the doctrinal error proveth to be no Article of faith, or Conciliariter decretum. 2. Or if this will not do, they are best yet stretch the words of Rome and Trent, to a more tolerable signification, and say, That it is not the ceasing of the substance of Bread and Wine which is meant; but the changing it into a Relative new form: And so, as the Whole substance