'Let us put aside the disputes that have divided us so long.[682] Let us all confess that in the eucharist the Lord truly gives believers his body to eat and his blood to drink to feed our souls in life everlasting; and that in this manner Christ remains in us and we in Christ. Whether this sacrament be called the Lord's Supper, the Lord's bread and wine, mass, eucharist, love-feast, or sacrifice, is of little moment. Christians ought not to dispute about names, if they possess the things; and, as the proverb says, "When we have the bear before us, let us not look after his track."[683] Communion with Christ is obtained by faith, and cannot be demonstrated by human arguments. When we treat of theology, let us not fall into matæology.'[684] The Sorbonne could not overlook this side-blow aimed at the scholastic style. SORBONNE. 'It is very useful, and often very necessary for the extirpation of heresy, to employ words not to be found in Scripture, such as _transubstantiation_, &c.[685] Yes, the bread and the wine are truly changed in substance, preserving only the accidents, and becoming the body and blood of Christ. It is not true that the _panitas_ or _corporitas_ of the bread combines with the _corporitas_ of Christ. The transubstantiation is effected _in instanti_ and not _successivè_; and it is certain that neither laymen nor women can accomplish this miraculous act, but priests only.' The controversy next turned on confession, justification, faith, works, and free-will; after which they came to practical questions. MINISTERS. 'Good men do not ask that the monasteries should be destroyed, but be turned into schools;[686] so that thus the liberality of our brethren may serve to maintain, not idle people, but men who will instruct youth in sound learning and morality.' SORBONNE. 'What! the pope should permit the friars to leave their monasteries whenever they wish! This clearly shows us that the Germans are aiming at the overthrow, the ruin of all religion.'[687] MINISTERS. 'And what prevents our restoring liberty of marriage to the ministers of the Church? Did not Bishop Paphnucius acknowledge at the Nicene council that those who forbid it encourage licentiousness? In that great crowd of priests and monks it is impossible for purity of life to be restored otherwise than by the divine institution which dates from Eden.'[688] SORBONNE. 'An article quite as dangerous as the secularisation of monks.' [Sidenote: AN ASSEMBLY OF LAITY AND CLERGY.] MINISTERS.