Retorsion: Rome's faithful cannot better tell true councils from false than our people tell canon from apocrypha
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Plenty of people Rome itself counts as true believers are no better at spotting a forged church-testimony, an unlawful council, or adulterated canons than our ordinary hearers are at spotting Apocrypha next to Canon.
Even their own learned men quarrel over whether some councils bind, and they do not settle the question among themselves.
Still they insist their church's teaching and witness is faith's supreme rule, depending on no higher authority, and that the faithful must submit to it at once under the Spirit's impulse.
Latin
XIV. Et certe multi, quos Ecclesia Romana pro vere fidelibus habet, non magis possunt per se dignoscere germanum Ecclesiae suae testimonium a supposititio, verumque et legitimum Concilium ab illegitimo, et Canones veros ab adulterinis, quam fideles e plebe nostra particulam libri Canonici a particula Apocryphi. Atque etiam viri in ea Ecclesia docti de quorundam suorum Conciliorum authoritate disputant, nec satis inter se consentiunt an legitima sint an secus. Et tamen illi tuentur Ecclesiae suae doctrinam et testimonium esse supremam fidei regulam, cujus authoritas a nulla superiori authoritate pendet, et cui se fideles immediate subjicere debent, a Spiritu sancto moti atque impulsi.