He will speak with sweet courtesy, and enter into every argument with all the reasonableness of a great mind.

But he says that to walk in that procession, to take part in that act of so-called recantation and reconciliation, would be in itself as a confession that those things which he had held and taught were heretical.

And no argument will wring that admission from him.

He declares--and truly his arguments are sound and cogent--that he has never spoken or taught any single doctrine which was not taught by our Lord and His apostles and is not held by the Catholic Church.
And in vain do I quote to him the mandates of various Popes and prelates.

His answer ever is that, though he gives all reverence to God's ministers and ordained servants in the church, it must ever be to the Head that he looks for final judgment on all difficult points, and he cannot regard any bishop in the church--not even the Bishop of Rome--as being of greater authority than the Lord.
"It is here that his case is so hopeless.