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XIII.—Summary of the Creed, or Rule of Faith. No Questions Ever
Raised About It by Believers. Heretics Encourage and Perpetuate
Thought Independent of Christ’s Teaching.
Now, with regard to this rule of faith—that
we may from this point1994 acknowledge what it
is which we defend—it is, you must know, that which prescribes
the belief that there is one only God, and that He is none other than
the Creator of the world, who produced all things out of nothing
through His own Word, first of all sent forth;1995
1995 Primo omnium
demissum. Literally, “sent down.” See on this
procession of the Son of God to create the world, Bishop
Bull’s Defence of the Nicene Creed, etc., by the
translator of this work, pp. 445 and following. |
that this Word is called His Son, and, under the name of God,
was seen “in diverse manners” by the patriarchs, heard at
all times in the prophets, at last brought down by the Spirit and Power
of the Father into the Virgin Mary, was made flesh in her womb, and,
being born of her, went forth as Jesus Christ; thenceforth He preached
the new law and the new promise of the kingdom of heaven, worked
miracles; having been crucified, He rose again the third day; (then)
having ascended1996
1996 Ereptum, having been
taken away. | into the heavens,
He sat at the right hand of the Father; sent instead of
Himself1997 the Power of the
Holy Ghost to lead such as believe; will come with glory to take the
saints to the enjoyment of everlasting life and of the heavenly
promises, and to condemn the wicked to everlasting fire, after the
resurrection of both these classes shall have happened, together with
the restoration of their flesh. This rule, as it will be proved, was
taught by Christ, and raises amongst ourselves no other questions than
those which heresies introduce, and which make men heretics.1998
1998 [See Bunsen
(Hippol. III. Notes, etc., p. 129.) for a castigated form of the Latin
Creed, as used in Rome. Observe it lacks the word Catholic. But
a much better study of these formulas may be found in Dupin’s
comparative Table. First Cent. pp. 9–12.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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