to the fundamental principles of Christianity, especially the Trinity and the Person of the God-man, and are the common heritage of the whole Church. 1st. The Apostles’ Creed. This was not written by the apostles, but was gradually formed, by common consent, out of the Confessions adopted severally by particular churches, and used in the reception of its members. It reached its present form, and universal use among all the churches, about the close of the second century. This Creed was appended to
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