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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. h Christian Crteb "Catechist.--Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief. "Answer.--I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. "And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Bom of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. "I believe in the Holy Ghost; The Holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of Sins; The Resurrection of the body; And the Life everlasting. Amen." THIS statement of all the articles of the Belief is called "the Apostles' Creed," because it contains a summary of the Christian Faith as it was taught by the Apostles; and is, probably, an expanded form of some such statements of principal truths, set forth by them for use at the Baptism of converts to Christianity. It is used at the "Public Baptism of Infants," and "of such as are of riper years," in the form of a question, "Dost thou believe in....?" the Sponsors answering for infants and Adults for themselves, "All this I stedfastly believe." The question is also asked, "Wilt thou be baptized in this faith," to which answer is made, "That is my desire." Every Christian is, therefore, bound to believe all the Articles of the Creed (as has been said before), first, Because he is a Christian, and secondly, Because he has promised God by a solemn vow to do so. The Creed is said aloud as a confession with our mouth before God and man, of the belief of the heart: the expression "belief of the heart," being another form of speech for what is meant by "loving faith." Lovi...
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