On Faith and the Creed: DOGMATIC TEACHING OF THE CHURCH OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES: BEING A TRANSLATION Of the several Treatises contained in the Compilation entitled De Fide et Symbolo: BY THE REV. CHARLES A. HEURTLEY, D.D. MARGARET PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. Parker and Co. OXFORD, AND 6 SOUTHAMPTON-STREET, 1886. с PREFACE. THE third of the following Treatises ought properly to have been placed first in order, being the earliest in date. That it has not been so is owing to the circumstance that a different principle of arrangement was originally intended, and was not abandoned till the printing had proceeded too far to admit of the necessary alteration. The whole of the Treatises except the last are comprised, as regards their date, within the limits indicated in the Title-page, ranging between A.D. 348 and A.D. 451, thus including the latter half of the fourth century, and the former half of the fifth. The Commentary on the Athanasian Creed is probably of a later date, though, for any evidence external or internal to the contrary, it may have been written before the close of the fifth century. Be this as it may, it contains no dogmatic statements, as neither does the Athanasian Creed on which it comments, for which a parallel may not be found in one or other of the Treatises which precede it. A Collection of Documents "On Faith and the Creed" would have been incomplete without a Commentary on the Athanasian Creed. These Creeds and Expositions of the Creed must be presumed to comprise all that the Church of the fourth and fifth centuries regarded as of necessity to be believed in order to salvation. Yet the Translator has been struck, while prosecuting his work-sentence by |