This creed is also known nnder the name of the Professio Fidei Tridentina, or Forma Professiomsfdei Ca&olicce. See Cramp, Text-book of Popery, p. 486; Buckley, History of Council of Trent, p. 619; Elliott, Delineation of Romanism, bk. i, ch. i ; Streitwolf nnd Klener, Lib. Symb. ecclesia Cath. (GOtt. 1846, t. ii>
Creek (koXitoc, bosom, as elsewhere rendered), a bay or inlet from the sea (so Josephus, Ant. iii, 1, 5), e. g. St Paul's Bay, on the island of Malta (q. v.), where the apostle was wrecked (Acts xxvii, 89).
Creeping Thino (y^^., she'rets, any swarming creature; or bpi^, re^mes, any low-gliding animal; ipxir6v) is nsed in Scripture to designate not only reptiles, properly so called, but also insects, aquatic creatures, and even the smaller mammalia. See Reptile.
Creighton, William, D.D., was bom in New York, Feb. 22d, 1798. He was educated in Columbia College, graduating in the class of 1812, and received his doctor's degree in 1830. He was ordained deacon in 1816, and soon after was employed in Grace Church, N. T., as an assistant to the Rev. Dr. Bowen. In 1816 he was called to the rectorship of St. Mark's Church, in the Bowery, of which he remained rector until 1880, when he became rector of Zion Church, Greenburgh, and resigned the same in 1846. In the year 1886 the Parish of Christ Chureh, Tarrytown, was organized, of which he was chosen rector, and remained so up to the time of his death, a period of twenty-nine years,
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without salary. In 1945 he was elected president of the Convention of the Diocese of New York, and was r»-elected every succeeding year until the consecra- tion of the Hev. Dr. Wain wright in 1852. At the first election of a provisional bishop of New York he was chosen to that high office, but, fh>m various considera- tions, declined its acceptance. He was also chosen president of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the General Conventions of 1858, 1856, and 1859 respectively. He had previously served the Church in different stations of trust, as member of the Stand- ing Committee, chairman of the Missionaiy Commit- tee, etc. In 1849-50 the Church of St. Mary's, Beech^ wood, was founded by him and his son-in-law, tiie Rev. Edward N. Mead, D.D. ; the principal part of the cost for the erection and ground being contributed by them, and divine service being maintained by them in it, as a free church, to the present time. Dr. Creighton died at Tanytown, April 28d, 1865.— C^urcA Review; July, 1865.
Crell (Cbbllivs), Johannes, a Socinian divine, whose worlLS form part of the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, was bom in Franconia in 1590, and stud- ied at Nuremberg and other German uioiversities. Originally a Lutheran, he afterwards adopted the principles of Socinus, and went to Cracow, in Poland, in 1612, where he beoime a preacher ; he then was ap- pointed professor of Greek, and afterwards rector of the university at that place. He died in 1638. His worlcs are collected in Opera onmia exegeticOf didcusticaj et poiemicci, magfwan partem hactemtt medita (Irenopo- 11, 1656, 4 vols, in 8) ; Touching one God (trans. Lond^ 1665, 4to).— Darling, Cyclop, Biblioffraphtca, i, 812.
Crell (or Kbbll), Nicholas, a distinguished German jiuist, was bom at Leipsic between the years 1550-58 ; graduated at Leipsic 1575, and was called to the oourt of the elector Augustus. Christian I, who succeeded his father in 1586, made him privy council- lor and chancellor. Augustus had been lealoos in opposing Crypto-Calvinism, but Christian I did not share his partiality for the Fomuda Concordia, and Crell, by liis order, superintended the preparation of a German Bible, with practical notes, for popular use. Christian dying before its completion (Sept. 25, 1591), the work was discontinued. The electress Sophia, who governed during the minority of her son Chris* tian II, &vored the extreme Lutheran party, and Crell was thrown into prison. In Sept., 1597, he had a hearing in prison, and in 1599 he was condemned as unfaithful to the elector andto his trust. EUs appeal to the imperial court at Spires was rejected, and he was executed Oct 9, 1601, commending himself to God. See Niedner, Zttch,/. hid. Theol. (1848, p. 815) ; Hutterus, Concordia ConcorSy c. 49 ; Arnold, Kirchen- tt. Keieerhtttorie, ii, 16, 82 ; Herzog, Reat-Encykhp, ill, 188; and Cetpto-Calvinistic Cohtrovkrst.
Crell, Samuel, grandson of Johannes Crell, bora in 1660. After being for some time a preacher at K6- nigswalde, he lived successively in Berlin, in the Neth- erlands, and in England, where he became acquainted with Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Grabe, and other eminent men, by whom he was highly esteemed. He died at a very advanced age at Amsterdam in 1747. He wrote several historical treatises on the ante-Nicene fitthers, and ' one on the Introduction to St. John's Gospel. He was a disciple of Socinus, but it is said that to- wards the end of his life he received the orthodox view of the atonement. See Fock, Sociniamsrmuy etc., p. 240 ; Nichols, Calvinitm and Arminiamsm, ii, 642.
Cresoens (Kp^trKiyCt for Latin Cretoena, growing), an assistant of the apostle Paul (2 Tim. iv, 10, where he is stated to have left Rome for Cklatia), A.D. 64. He is (^nerally supposed to have been one of the sev- en^ disciples of Christ It is alleged in the ApoetoUcal Coistitutiont (vii, 46), and by the &then of the Church,