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