4.  But some persons assert that the real doctrines of the Quakers are more easily discoverable from The Christian Quaker and his divine testimony, vindicated by Scripture reason and authorities against the injurious attempts that have been lately made by several adversaries.—­This work appeared in 1674; the first part of it was written by Penn, the second by Whithead, one of his most distinguished disciples.

XV.  It may be added, that the symbolic book of the Jews,—­is

The Schelosch aikara ikkarim,—­the Thirteen Articles of Faith framed by Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon in the 12th century:  it is frequently inserted in the Jewish prayer books.  Sebastian Munster published it with a Latin translation and an abridgment of the History of Josephus, in one vol. 8vo. at Worms in 1529.

Many Christian Catechisms have been translated into Hebrew for the benefit of the Jews.

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An historical and literary account of all these Confessions of Faith, and of several works and circumstances connected with them, is attempted to be given, by the Author of these pages, in his “Historical and Literary Account of the Formularies, Confessions of Faith, and Symbolic Books, of the Roman Catholic, Greek, and principal Protestant Churches.”

THE SYLLOGE CONFESSIONUM printed at the Clarendon Press in 1804, contains the Professio Fidei Tridentinae, Confessio Helvetica, Augustana, Saxonica, Belgica.”

“The Harmony of the Confessions of the Faith of the Christian and Reformed Churches” published at Cambridge in 1586, 8_vo_. attempts to reconcile the Confession of Augsburgh, the Confession of the Four Cities, the Confession of Basle, the first Confession of Helvetia; the Confession of Saxony, the Confession of Wirtemburgh, the French Confession, the English Confession, the latter Confession of Helvetia, the Belgic Confession, and that of Bohemia.

On the general subject, Walchius’s Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta, may be usefully consulted.

APPENDIX II.

REFERRED TO IN PAGE 188.

ON THE REUNION OF CHRISTIANS.

The attempts, made at different times for the re-union of Christians, are the subject of a learned and interesting work, published at Paris, with the title of “Histoire critique des projets formes depuis trois cents ans pour la Reunion des communions Chretiennes, par M. Tabaraud, ancien Pretre de L’Oratoire, Paris, 1824.”  An excellent sketch of these attempts had been previously given by Doctor Mosheim, in his Ecclesiastical History, Cent.  XVI.  Ch.  III. sect. 3. part 2. c. 1. and Cent.  XVII.  Cha.  I. sect. 2. p. 1.  To these publications the reader is referred:—­the present Essay may be found to contain,

    I. A general view of the attempts made after the Reformation, to
    unite the Lutheran and Calvinist churches: