Conclusion

Have you anything more to add in confirmation of all these tenets contained in your profession of faith?

I shall add no more than this, that having already proved in the first chapter, that the church in communion with Rome is the true and: only Church of Christ, and consequently her councils and pastors, the guides of divine ap-« pointment, which Christ has established to be^ our conductors in the way to a happy eternity: it follows that we should, without further hesitation, believe and profess, what they believe and profess: and condemn and reject, what they condemn and reject: assuring ourselves that by doing thus we shall be secure, since we shall follow those guides tvhich Christ himself has ap-t pointed, whom he has commanded us to hear, and with whom he has promised to abide to the end of the world.

Why do you in your profession of faith make declaration of receiving in particular the doc >•. +ine of the Council of Trent?

Because this was the last general council called in opposition to the new doctrine of Luther and

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Calvin: and therefore we particularly declare our assent to the decrees of this council, as being levelled against those heresies which have been most prevalent in these two last ages.

May the God of unity, peace, and truth, by hi8 infinite mercy conduct all Christians to unity, peace, and truth. Amen, Amen,