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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In God the father.
BY the name of the father, we are put in mind of that same most strait covenant confirmed between God and us, in Christ his only Son, and of his unchangeable love towards us. John, 17. O holy father, keep them through thy name, whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. Also, That the world may know that I was sent from thee, and that thou lovest them even as thou hast loved me.
BY the name of the father, we are put in minde of that same most streight couenant confirmed betweene God and vs, in Christ his onely sonne, and of his vnchangable loue towards vs. Iohn, 17. O holy father, keepe them through thy name, whom thou hast giuen me, that they may bee one, euen as wee are one. Also, That the world may know that I was sent from thee, and that thou louest them euen as thou hast loued me.
For albeit he be named father, in respect of his coeternal Son: yet we rightly gather thereof, that he is also in a free & undeserved favour ⟨p. 93⟩our father, because he hath promised in his Son, that he will become such a one unto us, and hath performed it in deed, when he gave his only begotten Son to be our brother, and made us in his Son, reconciled unto him self his members, and so adopted us into his children.