62/191 It seems a strange confounding [Greek: heteron geneon] to answer, "True; but the latter only happens to be the fact!"-- just as if we were speaking of the number of persons in the Privy Council. By keeping this faith 'whole and undefiled', must be meant that a man should believe and profess it without adding to it or taking from it. What if an honest plain man, because he is a Christian and a Protestant, should think it necessary to add this article to the Athanasian Creed;--'I believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be a divine, infallible and complete rule both for faith and manners'. |