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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.
The meaning of these words, He ascended into heaven.
The meaning of these wordes, He ascended into heauen.
THE meaning is, I believe Christ who according to his divine nature was always in the heavens, John 1. and 3. after that he had fulfilled the office of embassy, and by the space of forty days had instructed his disciples concerning the trueth of his resurrection, in that same true body of his, that was taken out of the substance of Mary the virgin, that it hanged upon the cross, was dead and buried, that being glorified rose again, that in the self same body I say together with a very human & reasonable soul, he ascended into the heavens, where the seat is of everlasting felicity. The scripture in the first Chapter of the Acts doeth set out the matter most lively before our eyes. And in an other place he saith the same things ⟨p. 198⟩that CHRIST departed from his disciples, and was lifted up into heaven, Luke 24. that he went from them, John 14. that he left this world, John. 16. that he was taken away Acts 15. from us, Luke 24. into those same holy tabernacles, not made with hands: Hebrews 9. into heaven it self, Mark. 16. that he is there continually and without any interruption, Hebrews 10. that heaven must hold him until the time of the restoring of all things.