Lectures in Divinity Delivered in the University of Cambridge (Volume 3) - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... the sixth Century: and before the year 1500, there had been thirteen Commentators upon it, which are known now. The reception of this Creed in the Western Church, was favourable; it was there read and admired; but some have doubted whether it was ever in the Eastern Church b. Not with the Filioque as we now have it, probably0. In England, it got ground in the tenth Century; but it was never supported by any Council. Yet, in the middle ages, it was appealed to as authoritye. Whoever wrote this Creed, he meant nothing more than to collect things said in various catholic writers, against the various Heresies subsisting, and to simplify and arrange the expressions, so as to form a confession of faith the most concise, orderly, and comprehensive possible. Not with any view of explaining ' any mysterious truths, but with the sole design of rejecting hurtful or heretical errors. Mr. Gibbon objects bitterly to this Creed as being spurious; but the early Christians used sometimes times to ascribe to others their own works, without any bad intention11; and what is customary does not deceive:--And, moreover, this creed may have been adopted on account of its excellence, in bringing the errors, which were to be shunned, into a small compass, in exposing them in a kind of poetic numbers, which strike and possess the ear; and may have been called Athanasian, only on account of its containing Doctrines1, which had been defended with peculiar force and brilliance, by the great Prelate of Alexandria". Watcrland, p. 88. b Why then so many Greek MSS? e See a curious passage, p. 372. Octavo, 2d Edit, of Travis' Letters to Gibbon; from Gibbon and Petavius. Middle ages continued from 475 to 1453, according to Harris. Philol, p. 240. Opposite the title-page of D-5-6, Magd. ...