Annotatio II §.VIII: Luther’s Captivity — true bread and wine; Thomist opinions are not articles of faith
Luther: Cambrai’s Sentences IV gave him leave to think true bread and wine on the altar likelier than bare accidents — unless the Church had ruled otherwise.
Seeing that Church was Thomist/Aristotelian, he fixed his conscience: true bread and wine, with Christ’s true flesh and blood no less than under accidents.
Thomist opinions stay opinions, not articles of faith — even if an angel from heaven said otherwise; without Scripture or proven revelation, opinion is free, belief not owed.
Latin
Dedit inquit, mihi quondam, cùm Theologiam Scholasticam haurirem, occasionem cogitandi, Cardinalis Cameracensis Libro sententiarum quarto acutissime disputans: Multò probabilius esse & minus superfluorum miraculorum poni, si in altari verus panis verumque vinum non autem sola accidentia esse astrurentur, nisi Ecclesia determinasset contrarium. Postea videns, quæ esset Ecclesia, quæ hoc determinasset, nempe Thomistica, hoc est Aristotelica, audacior factus sum & qui inter saxum & sacrum hærebam, tandem stabilivi conscientiam meam sententia priori: esse videlicet verum panem verumque vinum, in quibus Christi vera caro verusque sanguis non aliter nec minus sit, quam illi sub accidentibus suis ponunt. Quod feci, quia vidi, Thomistarum opiniones, sive probentur à Papa, sive à Concilio, manere opiniones, nec fieri articulos fidei, etiamsi Angelus de Cœlo aliud statueret. Nam quod sine scripturis asseritur aut revelatione probata, opinari licet, credi non est necesse &c.