II. ANTE-NICENE AND NICENE RULES OF FAITH

AND BAPTISMAL CREEDS.

GREGORY THAUMATURGUS, OF NEO-CESAREA. A.D. 270

LUCIAN, OF ANTIOCH. A.D. 300.

THE PRIVATE CREED OF ARIUS. A.D. 328

EUSEBIUS, OF CESAREA IN PALESTINE. A.D. 325.

CYRIL, OF JERUSALEM. A.D. 350.

COMPARATIVE TABLE of the Ante-Nicene Rules of Faith as related to

the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed

III. ECUMENICAL CREEDS.

40

The Forms of Aquileja, Rufinus, Fortunatus (Fourth and Fifth

Centuries).

49

50

An Old Italian Form (Fourth Century)

COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Origin and Gradual Growth

of the Apostles' Creed. .

2. THE NICENe Creed, A.D. 325 and 381

52

57

The Received Text of the Eastern Church, A.D. 381 .

57

5. THE CREED OF THE SIXTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL AGAINST THE

MONOTHELITES, A.D. 680

72

Remarks on the Dogmatic Legislation of the other Ecumen-

ical Councils. .

73

IV. ROMAN CREEDS.

1. THE CANONS AND DOGMATIC DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT,

A.D. 1563.

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77

2. THE PROFESSION OF THE TRIDENTINE FAITH, A.D. 1564

3. THE DECREE OF POPE PIUS IX. ON THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

of the BlessED VIRGIN MARY, A.D. 1854

4. PAPAL SYLLABUS OF THE PRINCIPAL ERRORS OF OUR TIME, A.D.

1864.

5. THE DOGMATIC DECREES OF THE VATICAN COUNCIL CONCERNING

THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND THE CHURCH OF CHRIST (THE IN-

FALLIBILITY OF THE POPE), A.D. 1870.

V. GREEK AND RUSSIAN CREEDS.

1. THE ORTHODOX CONFESSION OF THE EASTERN CHURCH, A.D.

1643

207

211

213

2. THE CONFESSION OF DOSITHEUS, OR THE EIGHTEEN DEcrees of

THE SYNOD OF JERUSALEM, A.D. 1672

3. THE LONGER CATECHISM OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH, PREPARED BY

PHILARET, REVISED AND APPROVED BY THE MOST HOLY SYN-

OD, A.D. 1839

VI. OLD CATHOLIC UNION CREEDS.

1. THE FOURTEEN THESES of the Old CATHOLIC UNION CONFER-

ENCE WITH GREEKS AND ANGLICANS, A.D. 1874

401

2. THE OLD CATHOLIC AGREEMENT ON THE FILIOQUE CONTROVERSY,

A.D. 1875

APPENDIX I.: Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII., Immortale Dei, concern-
ing the Christian Constitution of States. Nov. 1, 1885. .

APPENDIX II.: Fac-similes of the Oldest MSS. of the Athanasian Creed and

the Apostles' Creed

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

552

555

. 601

. 603

CONFESSIONES ECCLESIÆ APOSTOLICE.

SCRIPTURE CONFESSIONS.