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

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