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milted in the explanation of our formularies. The passages most objected to are these :—
" Whosoevei will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and nndefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly." And, " this is the Catholic Faith: which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved."
These are certainly strong expressions in favour of Catholicism with respect to this doctrine; no anathema • can, indeed, be more strongly worded than this which condemns not only the Arums, Sabellians, Apollinarians, Macedonians, Nestorians, Pkotinians and Eiuychians of old; but those Protestants also, who taking the Bible and the Bible only for their guide, declare that they do not deduce from it the doctrine of the holy trinity.
Under these circumstances, some uninstructed congregations in our Church are accustomed to threaten their clergy, and to say that they will quit their church, and so leave their pews empty, if this Creed is ever read ; forgetting that they thus call upon their minister to perjure himself, since he solemnly vows to conform to the Liturgy, and that they compel him also to play the hypocrite ; for whether he reads the Athanasian Creed or not, it is part of that Prayer Book to every thing contained in which every clergyman gives his unfeigned assent and consent, while he also subscribes to the eighth article cited above. The number of clergymen who fall into this sin, either to preserve or please their people, or from heretical opinions, is greatly diminishing. The Bishops, who are careful to prevent the revival of the old ceremonies of the Church, which have been long disused, even though enjoined by the rubric; are, of course, equally diligent in preventing the omission of any of our formularies. Wherever the Athanasian Creed is properly explained, the members of the Church of England aw generally found most ready to join in it: and here it may be remarked that this Creed, where it is not sung by a choir, is to be said throughout by the people after the Clergyman,— who is to repeat the whole of it in the same manner as the other Creeds. This Creed is only "censured by ignorant and unenlightened congregations