Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sermons on the Apostles' Creed Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ. This Nicene Creed, however, is only a longer and more definite statement, for the most part, of the articles contained in the Apostles' Creed. In all essential particulars, the two Creeds are identical. This being so, I do not need to further particularize at this time, since it is not of the Nicene form - the form elaborated by the Council of Nicaea in A. D. 325 - that I de sire especially to speak, but of that much more ancient form, that Shorter form, which we know as the Apostles'. Not that we are to consider that this Creed was formulated by the Apostles themselves, which is not the case. It is only a tradition, whatever the foundation it may have, that the twelve Apostles composed it - each Apostle in turn, at a meeting for that purpose, pronouncing a definite paragraph or article. Nevertheless, it may be very properly accepted as, and called the Apostles' Creed, since it gath ers together, and emphasizes in concrete form, the main features of Apostolic faith and teach ings. In certain parts the very words used by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.