1.
Receive, my children, the Rule of Faith, which is called the
Symbol (or Creed1762
). And when ye have received it,
write it in your
heart, and be
daily saying it to yourselves;
before ye
sleep, before ye go forth,
arm you with your Creed. The
Creed no man writes so as it may be able to be read: but for
rehearsal of it, lest haply forgetfulness obliterate what care hath
delivered, let your memory be your
record-
roll:
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what ye are about to hear, that
are ye to believe; and what ye shall have believed, that are about
to give back with your
tongue. For the
Apostle says, “With the
heart man believeth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto
salvation.”
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For this is the Creed which ye are
to rehearse and to repeat in answer. These words which ye have
heard are in the
Divine Scriptures scattered up and down: but
thence gathered and reduced into one, that the memory of slow
persons might not be
distressed; that every person may be able to
say, able to hold, what he believes. For have ye now merely heard
that
God is Almighty? But ye begin to have him for your father,
when ye have been born by the church as your Mother.
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