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An exposition of the Symbol of the ApostlesAn exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles
An exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles, or rather of the articles of faith In which the chief points of the everlasting and free covenant between God and the faithful is briefly and plainly handled. Gathered out of the catechising sermons of Gasper Oleuvian Trevir, and now translated out of the Latin tongue into the English for the benefit of Christ his Church. By John Field.An exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles, or rather of the articles of faith In which the chiefe points of the euerlasting and free couenant betweene God and the faithfull is briefly and plainly handled. Gathered out of the catechising sermons of Gasper Oleuvian Treuir, and now translated out of the Latine tongue into the English for the benefite of Christ his Church. By Iohn Fielde.
London: printed by H. Middleton for Thomas Man, 1581
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What fruit we receive by this, that we know and believe the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son and the holy ghost, ⟨p. 91⟩to be the only true and eternal God: and that there is no other God.
What fruite we receiue by this, that we know and beleeue the father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the sonne and the holy ghost, ⟨p. 91⟩to be the onely true and eternall God: and that there is no other God.
First of all, forasmuch as this is the true felicity, that we should know the true God, because God doth communicate himself unto us through the knowledge of himself: and forasmuch as our bodies and souls, were created and redeemed with a great price to this purpose, that they might be the temples of the living God in which he might be praised: we know that this is truly and indeed fulfilled in us, through the knowledge of the true God, of the father, the Son, and the holy ghost, as Christ promiseth, John 14.16. I will ask the father, and he shall give unto you another comforter, that he may dwell with you for ever, to wit the spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither hath known him: But you know him, because he abideth with you & shall be in you. Also ver. 23. The father and I will come & make our abiding with him. 1. Joh. 1. ver. 3.