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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.
Why the scripture calleth him the only begotten, seeing all we which believe, are the sons of God.
Why the scripture calleth him the onely begotten, seeing all we which beleeue, are the sonnes of God.
Therefore the Scripture calleth him the only begotten Son of God, that he may put a necessary difference between Christ and all the faithful. For Christ is called, and indeed is the only begotten Son of God, because he is the only everlasting son of the everlasting father, begotten of the substance of the father before all worlds: and therefore is very God in whom we ought to believe. Pro. 8. Joh. 1. Now we are called and are the sons of God, not by nature, but by adoption and grace, through which, God hath vouchsafed to adopt us to be his children, whilst he hath made us, through faith engrafted into his Son, his true and lively members, who otherwise were the men bers of Satan, and by nature the sons of wrath. Joh. 8. Ephes. 2. But in mean time, that same adoption, and name of the sons of God, ⟨p. 130⟩is not only an empty title; but when we are in truth members of the Son of God, we have by his grace a true communion and fellowship with him, in respect of which he is called the first begotten amongest many brethren. Rom. 8