AN ENQUIRY WHEN THE RESURRECTION OF THE "BODY," OR "FLESH," WAS FIRST INSERTED INTO THE PUBLIC CREEDS. AN ENQUIRY WHEN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, OR FLESH, WAS FIRST INSERTED INTO THE PUBLIC CREEDS. BY THE LATE ARTHUR ASHLEY SYKES, D.D., Prebendary of Winchester, etc. PUBLISHED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT, BY HIS BROTHER G. SYKES, A.M., AD. 1757. NOW CAREFULLY REPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR. LONDON: W. WHITE, 36 BLOOMSBURY STREET, 1857. 110. d. 333. THE PREFACE. Ir may be justly questioned, whether there was any particular set form of a Creed made or left by the apostles, upon profession of which persons were admitted to baptism. What is commonly called, the Apostle's Creed, plainly was not made by them. They seem to have instructed the Gentiles in the belief of the one God, the Maker of all things, and in the duty they were to pay Him as the Father of all; and then they proceeded to acquaint them, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power.—That He was Lord of all—and that He was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead. Acts x. 34-42. This was what the apostles taught the Gentiles, and pressed upon them by various arguments, preaching peace by Jesus Christ unto them. A faith in God was already openly professed by the Jews; and therefore there was no need of a particular instruction of them in that article. But then they were to be put in mind of what they |