But my Diocesan affirms, and although it is your own opinion also, I take the liberty of canvassing it in his Lordship’s statement, feeling that the sentiments of the Spiritual Head of the Church in this Diocese, must carry with them even greater weight than your own. His Lordship says, “granting (though the Creed makes no such concession) that five hundred millions and upwards of Pagans and Heathens, out of eight hundred millions inhabitants of our globe, are not meant to be included in this sweeping anathema, it should be remembered that the whole Greek Church, professed Christians as they are, must of necessity be included, as its members after mature consideration are at variance with other Churches respecting the procession of the Holy Ghost.” {46a} As a point of _doctrine_ I am much disposed to question the “mature consideration,” I should rather impute the schism to the imperious and unbending dispositions of the respective parties, the _Patriarch_ versus the _Pontiff_. But be that as it may,—I would exonerate our Church from the odium of gratuitously condemning to irretrievable perdition, those who in _her own opinion_ substantially differ nothing from her in this respect, but do keep undefiled the Catholic Faith. “They do not,” says _Archbishop Bramhall_, “add the word _filioque_ to the Creed, and yet they acknowledge that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Son, which is the very same thing in sense.” {46b} And again—“_Peter Lombard_, _Thomas à Jesu_, _Cardinal Tolet_, and many others, do make the question about the procession of the Holy Ghost to be verbal only, without reality, and that the Grecian expressions of _Spiritus Filii_ and _per __Filium_, do signify as much as our _Filioque_.” {47a} _Bishop Pearson_, _Bishop Beveridge_, _Dr. Waterland_, and many others of our own divines are of the same opinion. In explication of the doctrine of the Personality of the Holy Ghost, the Athanasian Creed says—“the Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son,” the Greek Church holds that which as _Bishop Pearson_ says, plainly contains this truth, that the Spirit is _of_ God the Father, and _of_ God the Son. The Creed says, “neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding,” and beyond a _procession_, distinguishing Him from the Father and the Son, but whether this procession be_ temporal_, _eternal_, or both—whether from the Father _and_ the Son, or from the Father only, the Creed _determines_ nothing—and the distinguishing property ascribed by the Greek Church to the Holy Ghost, is a _procession_, _Εκπορενσις_. {47b} “The Greek Church,” says _Dr. Bennet_, “does unanimously maintain the _temporal_ procession of the Holy Ghost, from _both_ the Father and the Son. And since this Creed may be understood in that sense, therefore in the use of it we do _necessarily_ declare no more than what the Greek Church does as cordially profess and contend for as ourselves.”