 | Daniel Waterland - Apologetics - 1823 - 470 pages
...full and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be believed by Christians. They were designed rather for hints and minutes of the main credenda, to be recited by catechumens before baptism : and they were purposely contrived short, that they might be the more easily retained in memory,... | |
 | Daniel Waterland - Apologetics - 1823 - 470 pages
...full and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be believed by Christians. They were designed rather for hints and minutes of the main credenda, to be recited by catechumens before baptism : and they were purposely contrived short, that they might be the more easily retained in memory,... | |
 | Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - Theology - 1843 - 788 pages
...full and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be believed by Christians. They were designed rather for hints and minutes of the main credenda, to be recited by catechumens before baptism : and they were purposely contrived short, that they might be the more easily retained in memory,... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 614 pages
...and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be prevailed by Christians. They were designed rather for hints and minutes of the main " credenda," to be recited by catechumens before baptism ; and they were purposely contrived short, that they might be the more easily retained in memory,... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 626 pages
...and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be prevailed by Christians. They were designed uhar baptism : and they were purposely contrived short, that they might be the more easily retained in memory,... | |
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It is a mistake to imagine that Creeds were, at first, intended to teach, in full and explicit terms, all that should be necessary to be believed by Christians. They were designed rather for hints and minutes of the main credenda, to be recited by catechumens... 