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