Ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other observances and constitu- minds are ever pondering the objects of faith, it is growth, that so the faith may not suffer in its purity. may become necessary to the Church as guardian of explicit. Normally, a clearly recognisable tendency through his Son to lay down what are the true lines of tions of the same Church." " I likewise nndoubtingly receive and will distinguish what is true from what is false ; but it uncorrelated will tend to become eystematised. Lines 16 ROMAN CATHOLICISM profess all other things which the Sacred Canon " The profession of a creed is a condition of that unity and the Protestant Churches profess it to-day. lieving that article of faith, although the majority of wrong directions, fundamentally lines of decay. Here 1 This idea is suggested by the broad submission to the mind of natural that what was at first almost instinctive and the Church indicated in such statements in the Creed of Pius IV. be true lines of growth, others which will be growth in comes in the function of definition, making creeds more to be a mark of the true Church. When living, active Creed and remembering the prayer of our Lord, 1 hold which Catholics, following the wording of the Nicene that revelation which she holds God committed to her as, " I most steadfastly admit and embrace the Apostolical and of growth will make their appearance, some which will Christians professed it then as the Catholic Church