For a Creed is or ought to be a 'syllepsis' of those primary fundamental truths that are, as it were, the starting-post, from which the Christian must commence his progression.

The full-grown Christian needs no other Creed than the Scriptures themselves.

Highly valuable is the Nicene Creed; but it has its chief value as an historical document, proving that the same texts in Scripture received the same interpretation, while the Greek was a living language, as now.
Sect.III.p.

23.
If what he says is true: 'He that errs in a question of faith, after having used reasonable diligence to be rightly informed, is in no fault at all'; how comes an atheist, or an infidel, a Turk, or a Jew, to be in any fault?
Does our author think that no atheist or infidel, no unbelieving Jew or heathen, ever used reasonable diligence to be rightly informed?
* * * If you say, he confines this to such points as have always been controverted in the churches of God, I desire to know a reason why he thus confines it?
For does not his reason equally extend to the Christian Faith itself, as to those points which have been controverted in Christian Churches?
And the Notary might ask in his turn: "Do you believe that the Christians either of the Greek or of the Western Church will be damned, according as the truth may be respecting the procession of the Holy Ghost?
or that either the Sacramentary or the Lutheran?
or again, the Consubstantiationist, or the Transubstantiationist?
If not, why do you stop here?
Whence this sudden palsy in the limbs of your charity?
Again, does this eternal damnation of the individual depend on the supposed importance of the article denied?
Or on the moral state of the individual, on the inward source of this denial?
And lastly, who authorized either you, or the pseudo-Athanasius, to interpret Catholic faith by belief, arising out of the apparent predominance of the grounds for, over those against, the truth of the positions asserted; much more, by belief as a mere passive acquiescence of the understanding?
Were all damned who died during the period when 'totus fere mundus factus est Arianus', as one of the Fathers admits?
Alas! alas! how long will it be ere Christians take the plain middle road between intolerance and indifference, by adopting the literal sense and Scriptural import of heresy, that is, wilful error, or belief originating in some perversion of the will; and of heretics, (for such there are, nay, even orthodox heretics), that is, men wilfully unconscious of their own wilfulness, in their limpet-like adhesion to a favourite tenet ?" Ib.p.

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All Christians must confess, that there is no other name given under heaven whereby men can be saved, but only the name of Christ.
Now this is a most awful question, on which depends whether Christ was more than Socrates; for to bring God from heaven to reproclaim the Ten Commandments, is 'too too' ridiculous.