A08483:263
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.
Testimonies out of the Prophets and Apostles concerning the resurrection of Christ.
Testimonies out of the Prophetes and Apostles concerning the resurrection of Christ.
1Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Acts 2. Men and brethren (saith Peter) I may boldly speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with you till this day. Therefore seeing he was a Prophet, and God had sworn with an oath unto him, that of the fruit of his loins he would raise up Christ concerning the flesh, whom he would place upon his throne, he knowing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul should not be left in grave, neither should his flesh see corruption: This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. The figure of Jonah (Cap. 2) is manifest and expounded of Christ himself. Math. 12.•9 40. Isaiah 53.8. He was taken out from prison and judgement, and who shall reckon his age and generation? And in the 10. verse, when he shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see the seed that shall prolong his days, ⟨p. 181⟩and the will of Jehovah shall prosper in his hands. There is also cited of Paul, Acts 13. the 55. Chapter of Isaiah, and the 2. Psal. and the 16. to the end he may show that Christ must rise again, that he might declare himself to be the very son of God (Rom. 1.) and that that same covenant of God made with David might be firm and everlasting. Now Pauls sermon is on this sort, Men and brethren, you sons of the stock of Abraham, and those amongest you that fear God, to you is this word of salvation sent. For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the words of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him, and though they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate to kill him. And when they had fulfilled all things which were written of him, they put him being taken down from the tree into a sepulchre, but God raised him from the dead, and he was seen many days of them, which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem which are his witnesses unto the people. And we preach unto you that touching the promise made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled it unto us their children, in that he raised up Jesus, even as it is written in the second Psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.