prompt and prudent manner, things to be condemned, may be condemned; and things to be approved, approved; that so, throughout the whole world, all may, with one mouth, and with the same confession of faith, glorify God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But in delivering their sentiments, when the priests of the Lord are sitting together in the place of benediction, no one, according to the statute of the Council of Toledo,[1] ought either to be boisterous by immoderate outcries, or cause disturbance by uproar; none to be contentious with false, vain, or obstinate disputations; but let whatsoever is said be so tempered by the mildest utterance of the words spoken, that neither the hearers be offended, nor the dear perception of a correct judgment warped by the mind being troubled. Furthermore, this sacred synod has ordained and decreed, that if it should chance to happen that any do not sit in their due place, and [thus] deliver their sentiments, even under the word It pleaseth, are present at the congregations, and take part in any other act soever while the council lasts, none shall thereby be prejudiced, none acquire a new right.[2]
INDICTION OF THE NEXT SESSION.
After this, the next Session was indicted for Thursday, the 4th of the ensuing month of February.
SESSION THE THIRD.
Celebrated on the fourth day of the month of February, 1546.
DECREE TOUCHING THE SYMBOL OF FAITH.
In the Name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost.
This sacred and holy, œcumenical and general Synod of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost—the same three legates of the Apostolic See presiding therein—considering the magnitude of the matters to be Seated of, espe-
