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;