is to look upon a truth which is now explicitly announced in the creed as something new. Clearly it is new in cession of the Holy Ghost from the Son of God. The This tendency to make the creeds more explicit is a instance, who, before 1870, would not have believed in THE EXPANSION OF CREEDS 15 knows of God and man's relations to him. But I do clusions would be just in the case of the words in the a way. Thousands of Catholics may have died, for mentality, a very definite outlook x on all that man dogma of Papal Infallibility is wrong, or new ; or that words are generally held to have been inserted in the necessary condition of religious life and growth, and to-day it is not of faith, any more than similar con- lieve whatsoever the Catholic Church teaches." I have licism means a very definite mentality and tempera- Nicene Creed in the sixth century. It is therefore not mean more when I have repeated the whole Creed reasonable to suppose that many thousands of Chris- of Pius IV., than when I have sincerely said, " I be- Nicene Creed " And the Son," announcing the Pro- Papal Infallibility. But this would not prove that the stated in this way, it is at once clear how inaccurate it i See pp. 27, 29, 74. tians in the early Church must have died without be- 14 merely defined my faith more explicitly.