APOSTLES' CREED. THE NICENE CREED. THE ATHANASIAN CREED. And the life ever- And the life of the world And they that have done good shall go into lasting. life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. Amen. to come. Amen. This is the Catholic Faith: which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. SELECT SCRIPTURE PROOFS. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake; some, to ever- He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Mark xvi. 16.) It will be observed, that the whole of the Athanasian Creed does not appear in the foregoing columns, neither indeed could it be inserted. The doctrine of that confession consists of no more than is implied in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds; but if that "doctrine is branched out into more particulars, and abounds in repetitions, that offend the ear and bewilder the understanding of plain men, let the fault lie where it ought to do; not with the Church, who meant to teach nothing new, but with the opposers of the Catholic doctrine; who attacked the Church with such variety of opposite principles, such intricacy of argument, such metaphysical subtilty of disputation, such perplexity of contention, that it became impossible to express our own plain faith, without an explicit guard against all the aberrations, which awaited us on the one hand or on the other."-From Rev. T. H. Horne's Treatise on the Trinity. THE LECTURE XII. THE PERSONALITY AND AGENCY OF SATAN. BY THE REV. HUGH STOWELL, M.A. "AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HATH DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT."-Luke xxii. 31, 32. A sober seriousness will always characterize an honest mind in the pursuit of truth. There is a majesty about the object which ought to scare away levity from its presence. To trifle with it is not more undignified than it is unbecoming. But if these remarks hold good in relation to secular, how much more in relation to religious truth. Here lightness of spirit is as wicked as it is weak, as pernicious as it is misplaced. Let not the man who indulges such a disposition in his search after truth imagine that the pearl of great price will be disclosed to him; let him tremble lest he should be justly abandoned to sport himself with his own deceivings. For reverence of mind is to religious faith what the vine-leaf is to the blossom-its shelter and its shadow, without which it can neither set nor mature. The special bearing of these observations on the discussion of that subject which our blessed Redeemer's warning to Simon brings under our notice, and which, in |