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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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The use or fruit whereof we be partakers of the resurrection of Christ is fourfold. The first is that the resurrection of Christ is a public testimony, that by the Messiah, as Daniel speaketh, there is brought a perfect and everlasting righteousness upon all and over all that do believe. For seeing that he is dead not in his own but in our sins that were laid upon him, and that out of them he is arisen again to a life that shall never die, hence there shineth to the minds of all believers a wonderful light, that not so much as one of all their sins remained unwashed or unsatisfied. For if so be that there had remained but one of all their sins, which (none excepted Christ took upon him) either not thoroughly punished, or imperfectly punished: ⟨p. 184⟩then could not Christ our pledge and truce-maker rise again: forasmuch as where there is but one sin, there of necessity must death be: for so hath the unchangeable trueth, and righteousness of God decreed, Rom. 6. The wages of sin is death. Neither yet doth the resurrection of Christ so make to our justification, as it is only a public testimony thereof: but also in a more high consideration, and that sound & perfect, every manner of way, to wit that that same raising up of the Son, is (as I may say) an actual remission from the sins of all them which believe. For even as the Father by delivering Christ to death, hath in deed condemned our sins in Christ, Rom. 8. verse 3. so also by raising him from death, he hath in the same deed absolved Christ from our sins and us in Christ. There is a most sure demonstration of this doctrine in the 1. Cor. 15. If Christ (saith he) be not risen again, in vain is our faith, & ye are yet in your sins, that is to say, ye are yet guilty before God. Therefore because Christ is arisen, we are not any longer in our sins, that is, we are in very deed absolved from them, in this very thing that the father hath raised him from the dead, that they might not be laid to our charge. 2. Cor. 5.19. So also is that same place to be taken. Ro. 4.
THe vse or fruite whereof we be partakers of the resurrection of Christ is fourefold. The first is that the resurrection of Christe is a publike testimonie, that by the Messias, as Daniel speaketh, there is brought a perfect and euerlasting righteousnes vpon all and ouer all that doe beleeue. For seeing that he is deade not in his owne but in our sinnes that were laide vpon him, and that out of them he is arisen againe to a life that shall neuer die, hence there shineth to the mindes of all beleeuers a wonderfull light, that not so much as one of all their sinnes remained vnwashed or vnsatisfied. For if so be that there had remained but one of all their sinnes, which (none excepted Christe tooke vpon him) either not thoroughly punished, or imperfectly punished: