See Chalcbdoit;
CREED OF Chalcbdoit. Chbistoloot.
CREED OF PoPB Pius IV, a summary of the doc- trines of the Roman Church as contained in the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent. It was issued in the form of a bull in December, 1664, by pope Pius IV, and usually bears his name. All bishops, eccle- siastics, and teachers in the Romish Church, as well as all converts fh>m Protestantism, publicly profess assent to it. The original may be found in Richter, Canones et decreta Concil. Trident, p. 674, in Cramp, Text-tfook of Popery, p. 542; and in Elliott, Delin. of Romamsm, ch. i. We subjoin an English version. It will be seen that the former part is the Nicene Creed, slightly altered.
I, A. B., believe and profeM with a firm faith all and everv one of the things which are contained in the Bjinbol of faith which is need in the YicAy Roman Church ; namely, I believe in one Ood the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Ix>rd Je«>a8 Christ, the only-begotten Son of Ood, bom of the Father be- fore all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, consnbstantial to the Father, bv whom all things were made ; who for us men and for our sal- vation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man: was cmdfied also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was barled, and rose again the third day according to the Scrip- tares, and ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and will come ag«in with glory to Judpe the living and the dead, of whose kingdom there will be no end ; and in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Life-giver, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who, together with the Father and the Son, is adored and glorified, who spake by the holy proph- ets; and one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I confess
one baptism (br the remission of sins; and I expect the resnr- reotioa of the dead, and the life of the worid to come. Amen. I moat firmly admit and embrace apostolical and ecclesias- tical traditions, and all other constitutions and observances of the same Chnrch. I also admit the saered Scriptures ac- cording to the sense which the holy mother Church has held and does hold, to whom it belongs to Judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures; nor will I ever take or interpret them otherwise than according to the unan- imous consent of the fathers. I profess, also, that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the new law, institu- ted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and for the salvaUon of man- kind, though all are not necesaary for every one— namely, baptism, confirmation, aucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony, and that they confer grace; and fX these, baptism, confirmation, and order cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. I do also receive and admit.the oeremo- niee of the Catholic Church, received and approved in the sol- enm administration of ail the above-said sacraments I re- ceive and embrace all and everv one of the things which have l)een defined and declared in the holy Council of Trent con- cerning shi and justification. I profess likewise that In the mass is olfered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead ; and that In the moat holy sacra- ment of the eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Chrirt ; and that there Is made a conversion of ttie whole substance of the bread Into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstantiatlon. I confess, ^so, that under either kind alone, whole and entire, Christ and a true sacrament Is received. I constantly hold that there Is a pur- gatory, and that the souls detained therein are helped by the suffragea of the falthfuL Likewise that the saints reigning together wltl^ Christ are to be honored and Invocated, that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated. I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, and of the mother of God ever Virgin, and also of the other saints, are to be bad and retained, and that due honor and veneration are to be given to them. I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Christ In the Chnrch, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people. I acknowledge the h<dy catholic and apostolic Roman Chun^ the mother and mistress of all churches ; and I promise and swear true obedience to the Roman bishop, the successor of St Peter, prince of thQ apostles and vicar of Jesus Christ I also profess and undoubtedly receive all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and general ooun- cils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent ; and like- wise I also condemn, reject, and anaUiematlze all things con- trary thereto, and all heresies whatsoever condemned, fleet- ed, and anathematixed by the Church. This true catholic feith, out of which none can be saved, which I now freely pro- fess and truly hold, I, A. R, promise, vow, and swear most constantly to hold, and profess the same whcde and entire, with God's assistance, to the end of my life ; and to procnre, as far as lies In my power, that the same shall be held, taught, and preached by all who are nnder me, or are intrusted to my care, by virtue of my office. So help me God, and these holy Gospels of God. Amen.