Excerpt from Christian Creeds and Confessions: A Short Account of the Symbolical Books of the Churches and Sects of Christendom and of the Doctrines Dependent on Them AT 9. Time when Church questions agitate wide circles, - for the old strife between Church and State, between Protest autism and Romanism, has again broken out, and when, even in the Evangelical Church itself, there is a combat between parties involving the very right of each other's existence, an attempt to set down clearly and conclusively fundamental and distinctive doctrines needs no apology. Many who formerly perhaps thought that they had no cause to busy themselves with such searching questions will now feel their need to make themselves better ao quainted with the principles and doctrines of the Christian Churches, since they may, as officials of the State or of the Church, or as representatives of the people or of con gregations, have to decide or at least give their votes on ecclesiastical matters. By such people a thorough and objective explanation of the confessional doctrines founded on the Creeds and Symbolical books themselves will be valued, and such a work this is intended to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.