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Council of Trent." The Vatican Council, which met Here is the ultimate touchstone of Catholicism. It is unnecessary to add any words of my own even where are here appended to the articles they expound ; and the points have not always been elaborated so much as occur after the words " and particularly the holy creed runs : " I likewise undoubtingly receive and profess day the words " and the (Ecumenical Vatican Council " Councils, and particularly the holy Council of Trent, one might to-day desire. WITNESS OF THE GENERAL COUNCILS 13 tion of the reasonableness of faith, and the faithfulness is to be noted here as clearly pointing out the supreme bility, but for traversing the much more pressing ques- In the form of the Creed of Pope Pius IV. in use to- of reason. Pius IV. in what is now called " the Creed of Pius IV.," authority which the explanations of the General Council have delivered, defined, and declared." This article in 1870, is really notable, not as the careless observer when I have said this I have explained why it seems or " the Trent Profession of Faith." One article of this have drawn the explanations of Catholic belief which have. all other things which the Sacred Canons and General From the proceedings of these two Councils, then, I may think, for defining the dogma of Papal Infalli-

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