A Hand-Book of Theology, BEING A SYNOPSIS OF PEARSON ON THE CREED, AND OF HOOKERS ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY, BOOK V. THE WITH BRIEF PAPERS ON HERESIES AND SCHISMS, THE LIFE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL, HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON TH THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES, BY THE REV. EDGAR SANDERSON, M.A., Third Edition. CAMBRIDGE:-J. HALL & SON; SYNOPSIS OF PEARSON ON THE CREED. ARTICLE I. E believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. SECTION I. I believe. THESE words are to be supposed prefixed to every Article, and every single truth in the Creed: e. g. I believe in God, I believe that God to be the Father, I believe that Father to be Almighty, &c. The expression, I believe, is to be considered, I. As it supposes Belief or Faith. II. As a Confession of that Faith. III. As both the Faith and Confession are matters of obligation. I. (a) Faith concerns what is credible, not because known, as by sense, nor scientific, as by reason, nor probable, in opinion, but what is credible by attestation, not manifestation: we properly believe by virtue of testimony given: an assent on this credibility is properly Faith or Belief. (b) Human Faith is dependence on man's testimony, and is therefore never infallible. Divine faith assents to what is credible on the testimony of God: this is infallible, because God is all-wise, and cannot be deceived, and all-good, and cannot deceive. (c) The testimony of God is given by Revelation, A |