He informed his sister that, in the common cause of Christianity, he should not be swayed by personal resentments.
How, indeed, could a different decision be expected?
His envoy at Rome, as well as his representatives at the council, had universally repudiated all doubts as to the sanctity of its decrees.

"To doubt the infallibility of the council, as some have dared to do," said Francis de Vargas, "and to think it capable of error, is the most devilish heresy of all." Nothing could so much disturb and scandalize the world as such a sentiment.

Therefore the Archbishop of Granada told, very properly, the Bishop of Tortosa, that if he should express such an opinion in Spain, they would burn him.

These strenuous notions were shared by the King.
Therefore, although all Europe was on tip-toe with expectation to see how Philip would avenge himself for the slight put upon his ambassador, Philip disappointed all Europe.
In August, 1564, he wrote to the Duchess Regent, that the decrees were to be proclaimed and enforced without delay.

They related to three subjects, the doctrines to be inculcated by the Church, the reformation of ecclesiastical moral, and the education of the people.