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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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For it was written, not for Abraham alone, for that this was imputed unto him, but also for us, to whom it should come to pass that it should be imputed, that is to say, to them which believe ⟨p. 185⟩in him who hath raised up our Lord Jesus from the dead, who was delivered for our sins, & raised up again for our justification. What hath the father done by delivering Christ to death? He hath delivered him for our sins, he hath punished our sins in him. And what hath he done by raising him up? He hath justified all in him: for when he had delivered him, that is the believers, so that their sins shall be no more laid to their charge, but righteousness shall be imputed unto them. For these words raised up for our justification, are to be understood of imputation, as by this it is easy to be seen, because that in the last verse saving one he hath said that righteousness is imputed of him who hath raised him up, and in this last verse he nameth it our justification in him who is raised up. Lo that which before he had called imputation of righteousness, this he nameth now our justification. What, for that the same Apostle in the 1. Timoth. 3. saith, And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, God manifested in the flesh justified in spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, & received up into glory: doth he not manifestly show that that same true God who was manifested in the flesh wherein also he suffered: by the spirit which he opposeth against the flesh, that is by the power of his own divinity whereby he raised up the flesh from the dead, was justified, and that not from his own sins, but from ours which he had taken upon him? After ⟨p. 188⟩which raising up and justification of him their followed the testimony of Angels, the public preaching of the remission of sins through him unto the gentiles, the belief which was given unto him, and to be short the receiving of him up into glory: all which testimonies verily could not have followed, unless he had been justified from our sins, by rising again through the power of his divinity. For neither could the Angels give witness of him as of the Saviour if he had remained oppressed in our condemnation: neither remission of sins have ben preached in his name, if from them in our name he had not been fully justified: