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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.
The consolation which a faithful man conceiveth by this pure conception.
The consolation which a faithful man conceaueth by this pure conception.
WE conceive hereof this consolation: first, that we have an undoubted and true mediator with God, in all things that we have to do with him, as who hath not only the communion of one, but of both natures, to wit divine and humane. Again that he is such a Mediator, whose body and soul in the very conception were sanctified: first that he might be a ⟨p. 140⟩pure and holy sacrifice, through which all our corruption might be cleansed, that it might not be laid unto our charge. Heb. 7. verses 26.27. Rom. 7. verse 20. and the 8. verse 1. Moreover to the end that the efficacy of his fullness, might by little and little sanctify this defiled lump of ours, until he deliver us fully from that same natural corruption, and by the same holy spirit, whereby that substantial word hath sanctified both soul and body, even from the womb, might also reform our souls and bodies in the time appointed of God, according to his own image, Jo. 1. verse 16. & the 1. Cor. 15. verse 45.47.48.
WE conceaue hereof this consolatiō: first, yt we haue an vndoubted and true mediator with God, in al thinges that we haue to do wt him, as who hath not onely the communiō of one, but of both natures, to wit diuine and humane. Againe that he is such a Mediator, whose bodie and soule in the verie conception were sanctified: first that he might be a