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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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This signification which is the third in order, to wit, of the sorrows of the mind springing from the curse, doth contain a profitable and necessary doctrine agreeable with the holy Scripture, and this signification were sufficient for the expounding of this article, saving that two points do let, both that in the death of Christ which was accursed those same sorrows springing from the feeling of the curse are comprehended, and that same article of burying is adjoined. The ⟨p. 175⟩later signification therefore of hell, is that same condition which is in burial and which followeth the same, that is to say, whiles they which are buried, lie oppressed and as it were swallowed up of death. And therefore David sayeth, Who shall confess thee in the grave? Psa. 49.15.16 Isaiah 14.11.15.16.17. Christ also would humble himself even unto this same very state, that he might lie until the third day as Jonah in the belly of the whale, swallowed, and as it were overcome of death. For so the Scripture speaketh of Jonah, the figure of Christ praying out of the belly of the fish. Chapter 2. verse 2. In my affliction I have called upon the Lord, and he hath heard me, from the belly of hell have I called upon thee, and thou hast heard my voice. And in the fourth verse, But I have said I am cast away from thy sight, yet I will look towards the temple of thy holiness. And verse 6. the bars of the earth have shut me in for ever. Saint Peter joineth both significations together in one & the same verse Acts 2. saying, Whom God raised up loosing the sorrows of death, because it was impossible that he should be holden of it. For first in those words, those same sorrows of death without all controversy, are those same extreme torments not only of the body but principally of the mind, wherewith God would bruise him, Isaiah. 53. and in which he being set and placed he crieth out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Moreover Peter addeth that then those same sorrows of death were loosed, when God ⟨p. 176⟩raised him up from the dead, because that it was impossible that he should be holden of it: in which words he manifestly joineth that state which followed the sorrows of death, and the burial with the sorrows themselves. And why so?