selves from the dictation of the Holy Spirit, handed on, as it were, from hand to hand, have come down to us. These books of the Old and New Testament are to be received, as sacred and canonical, whole with all their parts, as they are set forth in the decree of the same council, and are contained in the ancient Latin 62 ROMAN CATHOLICISM the Holy Catholic Church ; And I believe one Holy, Cath- olic, and Apostolic Church. Vulgate edition. The Church holds them to be sacred and canonical, not because, being composed by mere human industry, they were afterwards approved by her authority, nor because they contain revelation free THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE 63 I most steadfastly admit and embrace the Apoetolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other observances and constitutions of the same Church. (1) I acknowledge the Holy, Cath- olic Apostolic, Roman Church for the Mother and mistress of all Churches, and I pro- mise true obedience to the