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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 second fruit of the death of Christ.
Of the second fruite of the death of Christ.
The second fruit is the mortifying, or killing of sin. For he hath not only through his death satisfied the judgement of God for sin, but also hath broken the power of the infection of it, which by the just judgement of God it had over us. This I open thus: in that Christ died, he died once, and that for sin. And that he died for sin, I understand thus, that he not only satisfied for it, by his death: but also so brake the power of sin, which was altogether & wholly comprehended in the just judgement of God, by making a perfect satisfaction, that now it cannot any longer, as before, creep & rage in the body of Christ, which is the church, but must by little and little decay. Heb. 9.14. 2. Tim. 1. ver. 10. For even as when the heart of a man hath received a deadly wound, he is as one for dead, because he cannot escape death: even so sin hath received a deadly wound in Christ, so as we are said to be dead in Christ. Rom 6. And so the Lord speaketh in Hosea the Prophet cap. 13. I will redeem them from the power of hell, o death, I will be thy death, saith he, even I Jehovah will be thy death, O death; Therefore Christ who is God, or Jehovah manifest in the flesh, by hearing & overcoming death, was the death of death & sin, that is to say, by satisfying for sin, that it should not be laid to our charge, and by breaking the force of sin, (which is the sting of death) that is the power of infection, which the just wrath of God had gotten over us, to wit the wrath of God being ⟨p. 165⟩