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This work is a comprehensive study of both the well- and the lesser-known creeds. J. N. D. Kelly presents the rise, development, and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the Church’s history. The book opens with an examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and continues with an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of baptism. Kelly then studies the evidence for...

redeemed us from the curse of the law … that you may receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” An excellent instance of it is to be found in 1 Pet. 1:2, “… according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the consecration of the Spirit, unto obedience to … Jesus Christ”, and another in Hebr. 10:29, “Of how much worse vengeance will he be thought worthy who has spurned the Son of God … and has insulted the Spirit of grace?” A host of other passages stamped with the same lineaments might
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