The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-22 00:00:00

EIGHTH ARTICLE OF RELIGION.

The three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanaslus's Creed, and
that which is conunucly called the Apostles' Creed, ought
thoronglity to be received and believed, for they way be
pros ed by mast certain wart Ault% of Holy Scriptures.
CLACIII74I IN AVIAN 4tlll2S'S CREED.

Whosoever will lie saved, befot e ail things it is necessary
that lie hold the Catholic Faith, which faith, except every
one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shalt pa •
rich everlastingly.
And the Catholic Faith is this, &c.
['Dien follow the doctrines regarding the Trinity.]
He therefore that will be saved must thus (that is, as
predicated in the Creed) think of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation,
that be also Wiens rightly the incarnation of our Lord
Justus Christ.
Far the right faith is, Cc. [Then follow the doctrines
of the incarnation, resurrectitm, ascension, and last judg-
ment.]
%his is the Catholic Faith, whir% except a man believe
faithfully. he cannot be rayed.
By the :161h Canon, no Iverson shall be received into the
Ministry except he shall first subset ilk Oiler articles, tile
third or which contains the Iv:lowing wot ds, and that •' lie
acknowledgeth all and every the articles therein contained
(that is, in the Book of Articles of lit V..gion in 062), being
in number nine and thirty, besides the istification, to be
ogler:title to the will of Doll."
" 1 wish mit Church were well rid of the Athanasian
Creed."—Archbishop it: is Lett, r to Dr. Bur-
nett, quoted in Birch's Life of
ss 'I he greater part subscribe the utti,ies without ever
examining them, and others do it, he c.a.se the) must do
it, though they ran kindly satisfy Omit cohsciemc es ahutit
tqitc things in them."—Bishop kirititt t, in colic Itiiiutt of
'flit History of his own Times. vol. IN .
In 1772,1.50 persons, of which the isy were (Acr-
e) 'nen of the Church, sit ncd a rt-110.111 to Penh too,
pi a :log, that subseripuion to the thirty-nine articitb:•lioultl

" Our author, good man, is fully persnaded that the
generality of the Clergy firmly believe what they sae,-
scribe to." lem persuaded much otherwise.—Defrnce of
Considerations by Mr. Paley, who was afterwards promoted
by D►. Law, Bishop of Carlisle, to the A rehdearoary of
that Diocese, by the present Bishop of Lincoln to the
Stilideatiery of Lincoln. and by the present Bishop or
Durham to the Rectory of Bishop's Wearmoutli. •
Great objections have been made to the clauses of tli°;.
Creed, which denounce damnation against those who do
not believe the Catholic faith "as there awed, diet i .
certainly is to be lamented that assertions of so peremptory
a nature, unexplained and ungnslified, should have, been
used in any humeri composition." P. 219, vol. 2, el Eta •
menus of Theology, written by Dr. Pretyinan
the present Bishop of Lincoln.
" I am ready to acknowledge that in my judgment, not.
withstanding the authority of former times, our Church
would have acted more wisely, and more consistently with its
general principles of mildness and tukration, if it had nut
adopted the dominators clauses of the Athanasior Creed.
Though I firmly believe that the doctrines of the Creed
are all founded in Scripture, I cannot but conceise it to
be both unnecessary and prairesplewirs to say that • except
every man do keep theta whole and undefiled, without
doubt lie shall perish everlastingly. "—Ditto, p. 221.
N. B. The author of the last two paragraphs was one of
the Bishops whir refused to institute Mr. P. Jones to •
living, beraine halt testimonials had not the counter signa-
ture of Iti*Diocesan.
Words imputed to Mr. Jones, and denied by him
.Vinie•terillis of the Clergy of the Church of kugland sign wasl
they do nut believe.
The substance of the passage objected to in Mr. Pike
Jones'. speech. as reported in Treiensan's Gazette, Exeter,
acknowledged by Mr.Junee, and attested by several per-
sona present
• My Rev. Brother (Mr. Radford) says, the Catholics
think all damned without the pale of the Chinch. There
is a creed, that of St. Athanadus, in ninth it is affirmed,
that all are lost who do not believe the doctrines therein
contained. Every Clergymen is forced to sign his belief
to that creed. Yet if a Clergyman were to state that lie
believed others could he saved without the pale of his
church, an opponent might then say that lie bad stilted a
contrary doctrine."
We do not mein to make a profession of faith, but we
mei be allowed to state an honest opinion.
We cannot regard Archbishop 'I illotson, and Bishops
Burnett and Law as ornaments of the Church of England,
with the opinions they have deliberately recorded lig
print, and yet think Mr. Jones unlit to fill a benefice in
that church on account of the opiuion imputed to him, or
of that acknowledged by him.
We cannot think that it was wise and praiseworthy to
promote Mr. Paley in the Church, who was petanaded
that " the generality of the Clergy did not firmly believe
what they subscribed to," and yet think that it is just to
exclude Mr. Jones from his livings because he had said,
or is reported to have said, " nine-tenths of the Clergy
did not believe what they signed." And as we regard
Tillotson, Buruett, and Law, as ornaments of our uatioual
Church, and do also think that the promotion of Paley
cts great credit on the Prelats s to whom lie was in-
debted fir it, we insist acknowledge that, in ou► jadetneut.
Mr Jones has been deprived of his rights, and debarred
aids preferment most cruelly, unreasonably, and unjuittl: .

The information received yesterday morning flow
Batavia is of a very alarming nature. By letteis
from that Island, dated January 44, it appears that.
nearly the whole of the Dutch troops had beet,
drafted from tl,ence to Palembang, in order to
strengthen that military position; consequently the
inhabitants of Batavia are much alarmed, as not
more than 600 European troops were left to defend
the place against the Malays, who are able to mot.
ter a force of near 100,000 men ; if the check
should be made, a general massacre is expected.
Letters from St. Petersburgh state, that the de-
parture of the Emperor to visit the southern Iwo.
vinces of his vast empire, is put off for some weeks.
and sonic persons say that his Majesty will not un-
dertake his journey during the present year.
The fact of sentence of death having been passed
on Sandt, who assassinated M. Kotzebue, is cone
firmed by letters from Frankfort ; but the time of
his execution is not yet known. A person who has
an opportunity of seeing Sandt sometimes, asked
him how he was? " Alas !" he replied, " the
thread of my life seems to be formed of such a te-
nacious substance, that it cannot be broken, unlcs.s
by forcible mans." Ile is, however, still very
weak, and cannot leave his bed.
A letter frem Berlin,
,dated April 9:.; says—
" The Juts who, in the disguise of fAissacs, cote.
mitted various robberies in 1814., in the Ithem.it
provinces, have been condemn:Al to death.'