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    which is , therefore , called the Apostles * Creed ? " By the way , Lord King * has , we think , extremely well proved , that this famous symbol of belief is neither an apostolic composition nor of the apostolic ? age . But , passing this point , let us hear Dr , Milner ' s answer to his own inquiry : cc You say , I believe in the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH . " He

    then appeals to another creed : cc Again , how do you describe this church more at large in the Creed appointed by the great council of Nice , in the year 315 ,+ and adopted into her liturgy by your church ? You say , I

    be-LIEVE IN ONE CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLICAL CHURCH . " ThlS reasoning is add ressed , exclusively , to the members of the national establishment . There are Protestants who cannot suffer any decisions of the council of Nice to

    regulate their faith and conduct . Yet . even the Nicene creed will scarcely bear out this writer in his high pretensions . He maintains that there is no unity gf belief except in the Romish church . u Turning , " says he , ( 35 , ) 4 i his eyes to that mother church , who claims and exercises the authority of deciding upon controversies , the religious inquirer will discover one and the same belief in matters of faith and

    morality , amongst all its countless millions , from Italy to Ire - land , and from China to Canada /' He should rather have said , the same implicit submission to ecclesiastical authority ; for belief

    im-* Crit . Hist , of the Apostles' Creed , -f According to the usual computation , in the year 325 . I MosheinVs Eccles . Hist , ( transl . by Maclaine , ) vol . iv . &ix , £ cc . 5 Some of our readers may be pleased with seeing the fact commented * B ty fUchard Baxter , ( JLifcof , L- 1 . P * ii , pp . 5 W 3 , %%$ \

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    plies an acquaintance with the evidence of the specific proposi . tion which is the object of belief . But is it true , that this unity ha » existed among the members of the church of Rome ? We know that the decisions of the council of Trent have been rejected and dis * obeyed by individuals and nations , who were still included in th « catholic community . t

    The preacher grants ( 35 ) that disputes may sometimes arisi among them . § His own rule , then , we see , is not universally and entirely successful . Strange , indeed / that dissensions should spring up among those who are directed by a living guide , an in . fallible church ! " But , " subjoins he * these are quickly suppressed by the above-mention , ed authority . In short , submission or separation soon finishes every contest among them . ' * And is this all which cen be said ? Why , the case is the same of every established church . Submission or separation soon finishes every contest in the church of England and in the kirk of Scot , land .

    h " It is to guard , " remarks Dr . M . ( 36 ) " her unity of doctrine and liturgy with the greatest pos ^ sible care , that the catholic church continues to make use of the learned unvarying languages in her public worship . " Is , then , the only way of guarding them to prevent them from being generally read ? Or , if you plead that the catholic church c * furnishes the people with versions" of her ser-

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    194 Review . —Dr . Milner ' s Consecration Sermon .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/34/