Chapter 5: The Consent of the Church & The Arguments from the Power of God and Miracles
Council of Vercellensis under Leo the ninth, wherein Berengarius was condemned, of whose recantation there is mention in the decrees De
Consecrat distinct. 2. and in the fourth book of Sentences. They cite also the Lateran Council at Rome, under Innocent the third, who mentioned transubstantiation in the decretals De summa trinitate, in the chapter
Firmiter: and De celebratione Missarum in the chapter Cum Martha. Also in the Council of Constance, where Wycliffe was condemned, who denied this transubstantiation.
Chapter 5:
The Consent of the Church & The Arguments from the Power of God and Miracles Further they cite for themselves, (as they say) the consent of the whole
Church, wherewith Scotus was so greatly moved in his fourth book, as when transubstantiation might not firmly be showed by the scriptures and by reasons, yet he yieldeth unto it, lest he should be against the consent of the Church.
Furthermore, they draw a most large and far-fetched argument from the power of God, because He can do far greater things than these. And they bring in many miracles which were done for the testimony of the truth: as that this sacrament in the hands of Gregory, was by his prayer turned into a finger of flesh. Sometimes appeared therein a little child: and the sacrament, being pierced with small spears, yielded blood.
They speak many things also as touching the body of Christ glorified, (which Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians calleth spiritual) to the intent they might show, that it was very lawful for Christ to deliver His body shadowed and covered with accidents. And they persuade that it is not