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dead. He ascended into Heaven; He sitteth on theright hand of the Father, God Almighty. Fromwhence He shall come to judge the quick and thedead. At whose coming all men shall rise again intheir bodies, and shall account for their own works.And they that have done good shall go into lifeeverlasting, and they that have done evil intoeverlasting fire. This is the Catholic faith which,except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to theHoly Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, andever shall be, world without end. Amen."This put an end to the business of creed making,Satan's powers of concocting gibberish to takethe place of the Bible having been temporarilyquite exhausted. But a thousand years later the"Creed of Pope Pius IV" was issued in the formof a bull in December, 1564. "All bishops,ecclesiastics, and teachers in the Romish church,as well as all converts from Protestantism,publicly profess assent to it." It follows:"I, A. B., believe and profess with a firm faith all andevery one of the things which are contained in thesymbol of faith which is used in the Holy RomanChurch; namely, I believe in one God the FatherAlmighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of allthings visible and invisible; and in one Lord JesusChrist, the only-begotten Son of God, born of theFather before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light,true God of true God, begotten not made,consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things weremade; who for us men and for our salvation camedown from heaven, and was incarnate by the HolyGhost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; wascrucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, sufferedand was buried, and rose again the third dayaccording to the Scriptures, and ascended intoheaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and willcome again with glory to judge the living and thedead, of whose kingdom there will be no end; and inthe Holy Ghost, the Lord and Life-giver, whoproceeds from the Father and the Son, who, togetherwith the Father and the Son, is adored and glorified,who spake by the holy prophets; and one holycatholic and apostolic church. I confess one baptismfor the remission of sins; and I expect the resurrectionof the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.I most firmly admit and embrace apostolical andecclesiastical traditions, and all other constitutions