SIR,—Like the Rector of. Wotton I am glad Janus has
pointed out that the -first and only creed of the Early Church was "Jesus is the Lord." St. Peter on the day of Pentecost, in his first defence of Christianity, ended by saying: "God hath made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified." St. Paul wrote to the same effect in 1 Cor. xii 3 and Phil. ii 11, and, though the Ethiopian eunuch's declaration of faith, Acts viii 37, is not allowed by the revisers, they say it rests on "some ancient authorities."
John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's in Henry VIII's reign, friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, and founder of St. Paul's School, used to tell his theological students at Oxford: "Keep firmly to the Bible and the Apostles' Creed, and let divines, if they like, dispute about the Worthing. (Professor).
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