her true and sincere faith_, which, on the
taking of Constantinople, by Mahomet II, in 1453, Gennadius, its
patriarch, presented to the conqueror;

2. _The Orthodox Confession, of the Catholic and Apostolic Greek
Church_, published in 1642, by Mogilow, the Metropolitan of Kiow.

IV. The symbolic books of the LUTHERAN CHURCHES, are

1. _The Confession of Augsburgh_;

2. _The Apology of the Confession of Augsburgh_;

3. _The Articles of Smalcald_;

4. _And_, (in the opinion of some Lutheran Churches),--_The Form of
Concord_;

5. _The Saxon, Wirtenburgian, Suabian, Pomeranian, Mansfeldian,
Antwerpensian, and Copenhagen Confessions_, possess, in particular
places, the authority of Symbolic books:--the two first are
particularly respected.

V. The symbolic books of the REFORMED CHURCHES. The reformed Church, in
the largest extent of that expression, comprises all the religious
communities, which have separated from the Church of Rome. In this
sense, it is often used by English writers: but, having, soon after the
Reformation, been used by the French Protestants to describe their
church, which was Calvinistic, it became, insensibly, the appellation of
all Calvinistic churches on the Continent. The principal symbolic books
of these churches,--are,

1. _The Confession of the Helvetian Churches_;

2. _The Tetrapolitan Confession_,--signed by the four cities of
Strasburgh, Constance, Memmingen, and Lindau;

3. _The Catechism of Heidelbergh_;

4. _The Gallic Confession of Faith_;

5. _The Belgic Confession of Faith_;

6. _The Canons of the Council of Dort_.

VI. The symbolic books of the WALDENSES,--are,

_Their original and reformed Creeds_.

VII. The symbolic books of the _Bohemians_,--are,

1. _The Confession of faith of the Calixtines and Taborites_,
signed at the Synod of Cuttenburgh in 1541;

2. _The Confession of the faith of the Bohemians_,--inserted in the
"Harmony of Confessions," published at Cambridge in 1680.

3. _The Consent of faith at Sendomer_.

VIII. The symbolic book of the ARMINIANS,--is

_The Declaration of the Remonstrants_, drawn up by Episcopius, and
signed in 1622.

IX. The symbolic book of the SOCINIANS is _The Catechism of Racow_;--the
best edition of it was published in 1609, reprinted at Frankfort, in
1739. An English translation of it has been pub