¶ That Councels may erre.
PAnormitanus sayth, That Councels * 1.1 may erre as they haue erred, as con∣cernyng that contract of Matrimony, Inter raptorem & raptā, & the saying of S. Hierome was afterward preferred a∣boue the statuteof the Councell as it is proued. 36. q. 2. Tria, for in things cōcer∣nyng the faith is the saying of a priuat persō to bee preferred before the saying of the pope, if hee haue better reasōs & scriptures of the new, & of the old Te∣stamēt for him then ye Pope. Nor it can not helpe, to say that the Councell can not erre, because that Christ dyd pray for his Church that her fayth should not fayle▪ For I aunswere to this, that though the generall Councell doe re∣present the whole vniuersall Church: neuertheles in very deede there is not the very vniuersall Church, but repre∣sentatiue. For the vniuersall Church standeth in the election of all faythfull men: and all fayth full men of the world make that vniuersall Churche, whose head and spouse is Christ Iesus, and the Pope is but the Ʋicare of Christ and not the very head of the Churche, this is the Church that cā not erre. &c. 248. col. 1
Augustine sayth, Those Councels that bee gathered in euery Prouince * 1.2 must without doubt geue place to the authoritie of the full Councels whiche bee gathered of all Christendome: and also those full counsels oft tymes must bee amended by the full counsels that come after: if any thing bee opened by any experience that was afore shut, and if any thing bee knowen that was hid∣den. And this may bee done without a∣ny shadow of superstitious pride, with out any boasted Arrogancy, without a∣ny contention of malicious enuy, but with holy meekenes, with holy peace, and with Christen charitye, &c. 248. col. 2