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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
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.
Of the second fruit of the resurrection of Christ.
Of the seconde fruite of the resurrection of Christ.
The second fruit is vivification or quickening: because as Christ, is justified from our sins by rising again, and therewithal is quickened: so he that believeth in Christ, is both justified and quickened, as the Apostle teacheth Ephes. 2. until the 11. verse. Therefore Paul Rom. 5. calleth the same justification of life, and opposeth it to the fault of condemnation; and maketh an antithesis or matching of contraries between sin that reigneth to death, and the righteousness of Christ, which whosoever ⟨p. 192⟩receive, they reign in life, verses, 17.18.21. And in deed so, as not only Christ worketh in us not only that same new life: but also Christ is that life himself, as him self saith: I am the way, the trueth, and the life. John. 14.6. And Gala. 2.20. Now I live no more, But Christ liveth in me. Vivification therefore is the second fruit of the resurrection of Christ, to wit, for that Christ himself always living is become our life through faith, and because by the virtue which we draw from our head Christ through the spirit of faith, we arise in this life into newness of life, that by living purely and holily, we might wholly consecrate our selves to the will of God. This thing the Apostle teacheth Col. 3