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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 those same two natures must be united in the Mediator.
Why those same two natures must be vnited in the Mediator.
That the foundation of that same covenant of grace, or rather of that conjunction betwixt God and us might be firm, GOD would have these two natures in Christ to be knit together after a wonderful manner, to wit, by the union of persons. Now when we say that the divine and human nature of Christ are personally knit together, we understand that the Son who is God, hath taken mans nature into the unity of his person, and so God is manifested in the flesh, and made man, but in the person of the Son, and so as the proprieties of both natures remain safe, aswell that the salvation of men might be obtained by that mean, that he had appointed: as also that it might be maintained and continued for ever. For salvation could not have ben obtained, unless mans nature, and the nature of God had been knit together in a personal union: First, because it had not been the blood of the Son of God, that was to be shed: and so it had not ⟨p. 147⟩been a sacrifice worthy enough, for the sins of the whole world. Moreover, the humanity could not have been able to sustain the wrath of God, neither have abolished the sins that were laid upon it, unless the divinity had ben coupled unto it, into the unity of the person, by a most firm and altogether unlooseable knot: both which, that same man Christ by the power of his divinity, being personally knit unto him, hath performed. Acts 20. Philip. 2. Hebr. 19.14. Coloss. 1. vers. 14.15. And much less also might salvation now obtained be maintained, unless they were knit together, and might so remain for ever. For even like as it was required for the entry to that priesthood, and for the providing of full satisfaction, that there should be the body and soul of the Son of God, in which there might be satisfaction: so also that the priesthood might be everlasting, and an everlasting intercession be made for us, it must be, that that same humane nature be properly belonging to the Son of God, which he must show before the face of the father in heaven, in which, as our sins are once cleansed, so it might be the pledge of our reconciliation for ever.