CREED

A confe ion of faith, anciently to have been drawn up by lies elves, and deriving the title "Creed'' from the v. which it begins in Latin (credo, I believe). With •. its antiquity, it may be affirmed, that the greater j clauses is quoted by the apostolic father Ignatius; and thai the whole, as it now stands in our liturgy, is In be found IP the works of St. Ambrose, in the fourth century. [s. 80]