find official explanations of every article and every fession of faith represents what all the Western Church left without explanation are those which may be con- EXPLANATIONS OF THE CREEDS 19 before Luther died. term in an article ; secondly, the articles which are Council recited in the second session of the Council, believed before the Reformation. 1 It was this creed I had collected every word of a General Council which January 6, 1870. The same creed, slightly changed This creed may, then, be taken as a fairly full and bore upon the articles and their terms this little book sidered common to believers, and the position of un- since the Vatican Council, is in use to-day. 1 The Council of Trent held its first session just two month* are here left without any comment. This is due to a Council of Trent and the Vatican Council. It may adequate definition of the chief heads of the Catholic faith. The explanations which I have here added to ground of the reasonableness of faith ; and, thirdly, if believers has been approached from the fundamental which might reasonably seem to call for explanation variety of reasons. Firstly, I have not been able to the different articles are drawn from the Acts of the which Pope Pius IX. and the fathers of the Vatican would not have contained them. For the explanation appear strange that many of the articles of the creed