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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.
Concerning the last fruit of the resurrection of Christ.
Concerning the last fruite of the resurrection of Christ.
Seeing it not only our souls but also our bodies, are members of our head Christ, through the bond of the spirit of faith: 1. Cor. 6. ver. 5. 15. Rom. 8.11. therefore in the resurrection of our head Christ, our bodies have a certain pledge and seal that they are not only raised up from sins in this life, as was showed in the second fruit: but also the self same bodies which are yet mortal, have both now the right of everlasting life, and through that same quickening spirit of Christ, are repaired to the fruition of him, and to true immortality in the end of the world, and that in the self same state and condition with the glorious body of Christ. Phil. 3. Who shall transform our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to that effectual working whereby he is made able to subdue all things unto himself. 1. Cor. 15.49. As we have borne the image of the earthly Adam, so shall we hear the image of the heavenly. The last fruit ⟨p. 194⟩therefore of the resurrection of Christ, is tha• immortality is adjudged unto us from God himself, made in the raising up of the Messiah, and offered unto us by the Gospel, and sealed by the spirit of Christ, 2. Tim. 1.10. Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality unto light thorough the Gospel. To the