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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.
He ascended into heaven.
He ascended into heauen.
Testimonies out of the Prophets and Apostles.
Testimones out of the Prophetes and Apostles.
THE Apostle in the fourth Chapter to the Ephesians citeth a prophecy out of the 68. Psalm concerning the ascension of Christ: but unto every one of us, grace is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. And the prophecy in the hundred and tenth Psalm of the sitting of the Messiah at the right hand of God, comprehendeth in it a prophecy of the ascension into the heavens, as it were an entry of that glorious exaltation at the right hand of God, the which thing is confirmed by the testimony of the holy Ghost himself, by the mouth of Peter. Acts 2.34. Since then that he by the right hand of God hath ben exalted, and hath received of his father the promise of the holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this amongest you, which you see and hear. For David is not ascended into heaven, but he saith, The Lord said to my LORD, sit at my right hand, until ⟨p. 196⟩I make thine enemies thy footstool. So also Mark• the Evangelist in the sixteenth Chapter, joineth the entry with the sitting it self at the right hand: so after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God. And Christ