But a second reason for the non-circulation of the Written Word by the Church of Rome, is that _she does not regard it as the alone standard of faith and practice_. Hear one of her champions. You will not find that the Church of Rome repudiates Dr. Wiseman. He plainly says—“The Protestant asserts, and the Catholic denies, that God intended the Scriptures to be the rule of faith.” Hear also the decree of the Council of Trent— “Having constantly in view the removal of error and the preservation of the purity of the gospel in the church, which gospel promised before by the prophets in the sacred scriptures, was first orally published by our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who afterwards commanded it to be preached by his Apostles to every creature, as the source of all saving truth and discipline, and perceiving that this truth and discipline are contained both in written books and unwritten traditions which have come down to us, either received by the Apostles from the lips of Christ himself, or transmitted by the hands of the same Apostles under the direction of the Holy Spirit, following the example of the orthodox fathers, this Council doth receive and reverence, _with equal piety and veneration_, all the books, as well of the Old as of the New Testament, the same God being the author of both; _and also the aforesaid traditions_, pertaining both to faith and manners, whether received from Christ himself, or dictated by the Holy Spirit, and preserved in the Catholic Church by continual succession.” Thank God for the contrast which we can present between Rome and our Protestant Church! What then is the language of our own Church?—“Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.”—ARTICLE vi. And then again in the XXth Article she says—“The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith,”—(the word “authority” is rendered in the Latin Articles not by a word signifying _imperial_, _absolute_, authority, but _weight_, _influence_,)—“and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God’s Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore although the Church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree anything against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for necessity of salvation.”