The Protestants had acknowledged the Bible only; over against them the Tridentine fathers declared for the Bible _and_ the tradition of the church.

The canon of Scripture was different from that recognized by the Protestants in that it included the Apocrypha.
[Sidenote: Justification] After passing various reform decrees on preaching, catechetical instruction, privileges of mendicants and indulgences, the council took up the thorny question of justification.

Discussion was postponed for some months out of consideration for the emperor, who feared it might irritate the Protestants, and only gave his consent to it in the hope that some ambiguous form acceptable to that party, might be found.

How deeply the solifidian doctrine had penetrated into the very bosom of the church was revealed by the storminess of the debate.

The passions of the right reverend fathers were so excited by the consideration of a fundamental article of their faith that in the course of disputation they accused one another of conduct unbecoming to Christians, taunted one another with {393} plebeian origin and tore hair from one another's beards.