All churches howsoever have so enforced, and have
blamed the others, for so enforcing them.
Such formularies, from the circumstance of their collecting into one
instrument, several articles, of religious belief, are generally known
on the Continent, by the appellation of SYMBOLIC BOOKS.
I. The symbolic books, received by ALL TRINITARIAN CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES,--are,
1. _The Symbol of the Apostles_; and
2. _The Nicene Symbol_.
II. The symbolic books, received by the ROMAN CATHOLIC Church,--are,
1. The General Councils;
2. Among these,--_the Council of Trent_,--as immediately applying
to the controversies between the Catholic and Protestant Churches,
is particularly regarded;
3. _The Symbol of Pope Pius IV_.;
4. _The Catechism of the Council of Trent_.
III. The symbolic books of the GREEK CHURCH,--are,
1. _The Confession, of her true and sincere faith_, which, on the
taking of Constantinople, by Mahomet II, in 1453, Gennadius, its
patriarch, presented to the conqueror;
2.
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