THE ATHANASLIN CREED.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Stn,---Permit me to say a word on the subject of the Athanasian Creed, alluded to in your article on the Church, with most of which I entirely agree. As a High Churchman, I object to its omission,. but 1 object equally to the (so-called) damnatory clauses, which simply pervert its meaning as they now stand. No one but a lunatic- would assert that a rustic holding in ignorance one of the errors it condemns would be lost ; no one with any capacity for moral reasoning could deny that a person who from any motive should: gloss away what he knew to be the truth must be in serious danger.
Now as this last and not the first is what the Creed means, why should it not be expressed? Why might not the second clause run thus :—" Which faith whosoever shall wilfully pervert (or defile, without doubt," &c., &c.?—I am, Sir, &c.,
AN HERTFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT..
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