Answer. Thus we believe; thus we think; thus we subscribe.
The Cardinal. To these decrees adhering, may we be rendered worthy of the mercies and grace of the first and great supreme priest, Jesus Christ God; our inviolate Lady, the holy mother of God, also interceding, and all the saints.
Answer. So be it: so be it. Amen, amen.
Cardinal. Anathema to all heretics.
Answer. Anathema, anathema.
After this, it was enjoined on all the fathers, by the legatesand presidents, under pain of excommunication, that, before they departed from the city of Trent, they should subscribe with their own hand to the decrees of the council, or approve thereof by some public instrument; all of whom then subscribed, and they were in number 255; to wit, four legates, two cardinals, three patriarchs, twenty-five archbishops, one hundred and sixty-eight bishops, seven abbots, thirty-nine proctors of absent [prelates] with lawful commission, seven generals of [religious] orders.
Praise be unto God.
It agrees with the original: in faith whereof we have subscribed:
I, Anselus Massarelli, bishop of Telesia, secretary of the sacred Council of Trent.
I, Marcus Antonius Peregrinus, of Como, notary of the said council.
I, Cynthius Pamphilus, clerk of the diocese of Qamerino, notary of the said council.
