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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 third fruit of the resurrection of Christ.
The third fruit which is joined with the second, is the assurance of our perseverance in faith and of full victory against sin and death. For even like as Christ dyeth no more, but liveth the life which never can fail, (for in that he is dead, he is once dead to sin, but in that he liveth, he liveth to God, death shall have no further dominion over him. Rom. 6.) so they that are engrafted into Christ through faith, do draw out of him a spiritual life, from which they can never fall: and which no not in the very separation of the body and of soul can be extinguished, as Christ saith, If any man keep my word he shall never see death. John 8.51. Therefore seeing the faithful live this life of Christ in an entrance or beginning, the force and nature whereof shed into their minds from Christ is such as it can never altogether die: they are also assured of the full consummation and perfecting of it. The self same thing also Peter teacheth 1. Epist. 1. Blessed be God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who of his great mercy hath begotten us into a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: And verse 4. & 6. he layeth the cause & foundation of a lively hope in the mercy of the father & resurrection of Christ: because as Christ after that he arose in ⟨p. 192⟩our name by the mercy of the father he always liveth: so hope also hath a permanent and endurable life in him, partly regeneration being begone, and partly it looketh for it in that same full consummation and finishing. In the first to the Ephesians verses 19.20.23. there is a notable place most fit and agreeable unto this doctrine: to wit that God doeth show forth it self same power in us, whiles he giveth us faith, which he wrought and declared in his son, when he raised him up from the dead, and that same substantial word it self to be that, which filleth all in all things, The same also