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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.
Of the holiness of his conception.
Of the holinesse of his conception.
Jeremiah 23. Behold the days come, saith the Lord of hosts. And I will raise up a branch to my servant David, and this is his name whereby they shall call him. The Lord of hosts our righteousness. The prophecy is fulfilled. Luke 1. verses 31.22.33.35. Daniel in the 9. Chapter foretold that the holiness of holinesses must be anointed, whereby in very deed he showeth plainly and clearly, that his conception must be holy, and must be the second Temple yet standing. What, that the Prophet Isaiah, and Haggeus foreshowed that it should come to pass, that the glory of the second Temple should be much greater then the glory of the first, it should be everlasting: was it not truly fulfilled in this most pure conception of the Son of God,1 in which by the power of the holy Ghost, that same everlasting word hath personally united the human nature, and hath begun to dwell in it, as in his own Temple? As also Christ himself nameth his body a Temple. Joh. 2. So both the prophesies are fulfilled, not as in a temple of stone, or a figure, whose glory was much less then the glory of Solomons Temple, neither did that Temple continue everlastingly, but after the Messiah was exalted, to wit, that same true Temple was taken away into the fathers glory, never after to be builded again. The prophecy of Isaiah is plain in ⟨p. 136⟩