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But the seedbed of heresies is the hatred of truth, concerning which the same Apostle says: They perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved, God sent to them the efficacy of deception, that they might believe a lie. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 and following.
Examples are all those who, among many other things, struggle to teach and defend these ῥημάτων ἢ πραγμάτων θαύματα miracles of words or deeds, either against conscience or through imprudence.
That the Flesh of Christ is everywhere: which being posited, many things follow.
Gébila: as Melanchthon truly wrote somewhere, p.m. post mortem - after his death
That the same is eaten orally and sensually (this word exists in the recantation of Berengarius a reference to the 11th-century theologian forced to recant his views on the Eucharist), and ground by teeth: and that it is actually eaten even by unbelievers (provided they approach that Supper), but to their condemnation: whereas when it is perceived, it gives life. John 6:53, 54, 56, 57, 58.
Decrees of the Council of Trent, Session 7. That there are seven Sacraments of the Church of the new law, truly and properly instituted by Christ: Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction: and that they are unequal, necessary for salvation, though not for everyone individually: and that they confer grace ex opere operato by the work performed. For to affirm all these things is nothing else than to testify that the definition of a Sacrament is unknown to the one affirming it, which is: to seal the Justice of faith through a visible sign, by God's institution. Romans 4:11.
Council of Trent, Session 5, in the Decree on original sin. That original sin is entirely removed in Baptism, as far as it pertains to the nature of sin. Nevertheless, Concupiscence, or the tinder a term used to describe the inclination toward sin, remains in the baptized for the struggle. The holy Synod declares that the Catholic Church never understood this Concupiscence, which the Apostle sometimes calls sin, to be called sin because it is truly and properly sin in the Reborn, but because it is from sin and inclines toward sin. However, we oppose to the decree of the Synod those things which are held in Romans 7:7 and 1 John 1:8.
Session 6, On justification. If anyone says that there is no free will in man after the sin of Adam: likewise, that a man is justified by faith alone (we use this exclusionary term as Ambrose taught us): let him be anathema.
If anyone says that a man, reborn and justified, is held by faith