The Catechism: Part 2/6

Gavin says, "This is the second in a series of six or sextet of sermons on The Catechism, in which the Anglican Short Catechism found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is the model catechism and thus the primary catechism considered, although some other Protestant catechisms that also use the same five great symbols of the Christian Faith, to wit, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and holy sacraments of Baptism and Communion, shall also be referred to in a secondary way from time to time. … The second sermon will include a summary of elements of Articles 1 & 2 of the Creed, and also some more detailed consideration of Articles 3 and 4a of the Apostles' Creed, ending with the words, 'was crucified, dead, and buried'." And "the fact that Christ both 'suffered' and was 'dead,' was denied by Gnostic heretics known as Docetists;" and "the denial of the full humanity of Jesus Christ by these gnostic antichrists, typed the then future Roman Papal Antichrist who … denies the humanity of Christ, in the transubstantiation heresy …, 'For … the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here; it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time in more places than one'." "And … the Creed as a standard of orthodoxy was present with the final form … as recorded by Pirminius somewhere between 710 and 750 A.D.," who "had in The Apostles' Creed a powerful statement of Christian faith in antithesis to infidel Islam; and given that Pirminius also undertook missionary work among pagans" he "also had in The Apostles' Creed a powerful statement of Christian faith in antithesis to heathenism."