creed

Apostles’ Creed

12 clauses

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Dates

written c. 700

Tradition

ecumenical

Also called

The Creed; Symbolum Apostolorum; Old Roman Creed

Related

Expounded by An Orthodox Catechism (1680); Expounded by Heidelberg Catechism (1563); Parallel to Orthodox Creed (1679)

Follows

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England, the King’s printers’ folio, 1662 (London); Wing B3622 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From the scanChecked against EEBO-TCP A28758: all, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-28

License

Public domain

Notes

The Creed of Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer of 1662, as its first printing has it, in its twelve articles as catechisms expound it (the Heidelberg’s questions 26–58, and An Orthodox Catechism’s after them). The printing is black letter; its long s is printed s, and its u and v as we write them. The 1693 printing (Wing B3687, EEBO-TCP A28758) has the same words, but “Catholic”. Its received form is dated to about 700, from the Old Roman Creed of the second and third centuries. In the United Kingdom the Prayer Book’s text is the Crown’s, under its letters patent; elsewhere it is in the public domain.

Commentaries

William Perkins, An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles (1595); Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles (1581), with each clause

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1. 1I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
2. 2And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
3. 3Who was conceived by the holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary,
4. 4Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell;
5. 5The third day he rose again from the dead,
6. 6He ascended into Heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
7. 7From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
8. 8I believe in the holy Ghost;
9. 9The holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints;
10. 10The forgiveness of sins;
11. 11The resurrection of the body,
12. 12And the life everlasting. Amen.