# The Apostles’ Creed.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: THE APOSTLES’ CREED.



1. I believe in one God, the Father, the almighty
Creator of heaven and earth.

2. And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son,
our Lord.

3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and
born of the virgin Mary.

4. Who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
died, and was buried.

5. Rose from the dead on the third day.

6. Ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right
hand of God, the almighty Father.

7. From whence he will come to judge the living
and the dead.

8. I believe in the Holy Ghost.

9. I believe in a holy general Christian church,
the communion of saints.

10. Forgiveness of sins.

11. Resurrection of the flesh.

12. And an eternal life.

This is the most ancient and simple creed, which,
it appears, was confessed already in or about the
time of the apostles; and for which many, yea the
greater part of the first Christian believers, have
sacrificed their lives. But as, in the course of time,
the true and simple meaning of the confession set
forth was assailed and disputed by the contradiction
and perverse interpretation of contentious and, not
less, erring persons going under the name of good
Christians; the true believers of the church of God
were compelled, as often as this happened, and
necessity required, to declare how they understood
and interpreted this or that article.

Hence it has come that at this day there are
found among those who are called Anabaptists, various
confessions, which differ in style, but not in
faith (we speak of the foundation of the same), in
which confessions the creed set forth above is more
fully interpreted and explained.

Of these we shall present here principally three,
which were acknowledged and adopted without contradiction
as a unanimous confession, by a great
number of teachers, assembled from various districts,
in the year 1649, in the city of Harlem. Two of
these had been drawn up at Amsterdam, in 1627
and 1630, and the third at Dort, the 21st of April
1632; all on account of certain church unions which
took place subsequently in these years.





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