Annotatio III §.X (3)(a) cont.: Highest idolatry species — even without their Transsubstantiation hypothesis; God’s definition, not ours
That is the highest species of idolatry — which even Pontificians never deny if Transsubstantiation is not supposed, and must not deny without that hypothesis.
They cannot make their hypothesis certain by Revelation or Reason; and idolatry turns on God’s definition, not on whether a human opinion is true or false — whenever what is not the highest God is estimated, saluted, or given highest cult as if it were.
Latin
Hôcque ipso summa Idololatriæ species incurritur, ne Pontificiis quidem ipsis, sub hypothesi haud facta Transsubstantiationis, negata unquam, sed nec neganda citra hanc hypothesin, tùm quod hypotheseos suæ nullo vel Revelationis vel Rationis argumento, certiores fieri possint, multis è contrario utriusque argumentis, saltem dubii de ista reddantur, si non omnino ab eadem abducantur; tùm, quod Idololatriæ natura ac admissio, neutiquam ab hypothesi opinioneque humana, sive vera ista sit, sive falsa, sed verò à determinatione seu definitione Dei, dependeat, quâ toties idololatriam propriè sic dictam committi novimus, quoties id, quod summe Deus non est, sive ex errore, sive citra errorem, vel æstimatur, vel salutatur talis, nedum religioso summôque cultu afficitur.