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“ THE APOSTLES' CREED
It is affirmed by Ambrose, "that the twelve Apostles, as skilful artificers assembled together, and made a key by their common device, that is, the Creed; by which the darkness of the devil is disclosed, that the light of Christ may appear." [1] Others fable that every Apostle inserted an article, by which the Creed is divided into twelve articles; and a sermon, fathered upon St. Austin, and quoted by the Lord Chancellor King, fabricates that each particular article was thus inserted by each particular Apostle:—
"Peter.—1. I believe in God the Father Almighty ”

“ Also in accordance with the Belief of most Protestant Dissenters, and the Roman Catholic Church, wherefrom they first derived it. 1 I believe in God the Father Almighty:
1 I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: 2 And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord ”

“ The most important "addition" since the year of Christ 600, is that which affirms that Christ descended into hell. This has been proved not only to he an invention after the Apostles' time, but even after the time of Eusebius. Bishop Parsons says, [13] that the descent into hell was not in the ancient creeds or rules of faith. "It is not to be found in the rules of faith delivered by Irenæus, [14] by Origen [15] or by Tertullian. [16] It is not expressed in those creeds which were made by the councils as larger explications of the Apostles' Creed ”