CHAPTER VI. 



INDIVIDUAL CREEDS AND OPINIONS OF SYNODS. 



|'E WILL lastly refer to the creeds of Chris- 



pr tendom. These are divided into Indivi- 

 dual, (Ecumenical and Particular. 



"A Creed, or Rule of Faith, is a confession of 

 faith for public use, or a form of words setting 

 forth with authority certain articles of belief, 

 which are regarded by the framers as necessary 

 for salvation. *********** They are 

 summaries of the doctrines of the Bible, aids to 

 its sound understanding, bonds of union among 

 their professors, public standards, and guards 

 against false doctrine and practice." SchafFs 

 Hist, of the Creeds of Christendom. (Vol. 1, pp. 3 

 and 8.) 



Among the Individual Creeds might be men- 

 tioned : 



1. The Creed of Irenaeus. Contra Haereses, 

 (lib. 1, cap. 10, par. 1.) Here the "angels who 

 apostatized " and " impious " and " unjust " and 

 " lawless " and " blasphemers " are consigned to 

 eternal fire («c to aluviovro Trip) while the ''righteous" 



