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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.
What the personal union is, and wherefore it is that the properties of both natures must remain whole and sound in it.
What the personal vnion is, and wherefore it is that the properties of both natures must remaine whole and sound in it.
The personal union, is the knitting together of two natures in Christ, to wit, of the divine and humane: in which, admit that the one be and remain the maker, and without beginning: and the other be and remain created, and therefore have a beginning: one be of the same substance together with the Father; the other be of the same substance with us: one be almighty, because it is God; the other be not almighty because the creature is not the creator, neither are there two almighty ones, but one almighty one: one be and remain infinite, but the other be not infinite but finite, having a finite head, arms, feet, &c. Admit (I say) that these natures are most diverse, and remain everlastingly distinguished in their properties (for as much as the creator will everlastingly remain distinct from all creatures, yea from that same lump which it hath taken) yet notwithstanding, they are so coupled together, that they make one Individuum, to wit, Christ. All this may be seen by the conception, in which that same personal union was once perfectly made, neither was it ever afterwards otherwise made. Joh. 1.3. cap. 14. Hebr. 2.16. Seeing therefore that the covenant of salvation, between God and men, is everlasting, it must needs be concluded that in the person of Christ as in the foundation, these two natures are so everlastingly united together, that in mean season the trueth of either nature, remain for ever with their properties, and that neither be swallowed ⟨p. 150⟩