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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
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To what end the burial of Christ tendeth: and which are the fruits of it.
To what ende the buriall of Christe tendeth: and which are the fruites of it.
Burial is a part of the humiliation of Christ. For it is the proceeding of his death. The first fruit therefore of this article is the confirmation of our faith, that we doubt not, Christ being dead in deed and buried for us, that he was so far forth humbled, that neither death nor burial can hurt us, forasmuch as the wrath of the father is truly and and indeed pacified. For even like as Jonah, who was a figure of Christ, being once cast into ⟨p. 167⟩the sea, the storm ceased, and a great calm followed: even so Christ foretold that he should be cut of from the number of those that lived, and should be placed in the heart of the earth, that he might reconcile the father unto us, being angry for our sins. Which thing forasmuch as Christ the mediator of the covenant, hath in deed fulfilled, as is contained in this article, we do worthily believe it. And this in deed is the first fruit of Christ his burial. The second: This article also maketh to repentance and amendment of life. For like as Christ dead by sin, resteth in the grave: so we by the virtue of that communion, which we have with Christ dead and buried, we ought altogether to esteem our old man by the power of faith, and by the testimony of Baptism, to be buried together with Christ, that true rest being restored to our consciences, we may rest from our works, that is from our sins, and so begin here that everlasting Sabaoth until by the virtue of Christ, it be fully accomplished in us. So Paul when he said in the 6. to the Romans, that we are baptised into the death of Christ, he by and by addeth, that we are also buried with Christ by baptism into death: to wit, that he might express, that by the virtue of that communion we have with Christ, it is brought to pass, in a continual course and proceeding that we mortify our old man. ⟨p. 168⟩And besides these principal ends and fruits whereof we have spoken, this is also to be added, that burial is an evident sign, that Christ was dead in deed. Upon his death depended satisfaction for sins, and therefore it behoved that to be most certain, and no place to be left of doubting. Now all doubting of his death is taken away, when he was buried as other dead men are, and that according to the scriptures.