Ib. p. 201.
As reverend Bishop Ussher hath manifested that the Western Creed, now called the Apostles' (wanting two or three clauses that now are in it) was not only before the Nicene Creed, but of much further antiquity, that no beginning of it below the Apostles' days can be found.
Remove these two or three clauses, and doubtless the substance of the remainder must have been little short of the Apostolic age. But so is one at least of the writings of Clement.
great question is: Was this the Baptismal Symbol, the
Regula Fidei
, which it was forbidden to put in writing;—or was it not the Christian A. B. C. of the
Catechumeni
previously to their Baptismal initiation into the higher mysteries, to the