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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.
That the general and last judgement must of necessity be, that we may be armed against those scorners, whom the holy Ghost hath foreshowed should be, by Peter the Apostle in these last times,
That the generall and last iudgement must of necessitie be, that we may bee armed against those scorners, whome the holy Ghost hath foreshewed shoulde be, by Peter the Apostle in these last times,
A sure foundation may be taken from the righteousness of God, and the state of the righteous in this life, as Paul hath concluded in the 1. Thes. 1. For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you which are troubled, release with us, when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire, &c. Forasmuch therefore as that recompense is not in this life, which the righteousness of God requireth, and this notwithstanding this righteousness remaineth firm & unmoveable with God for ever, that the wicked may be punished, the Godly may receive that same promised release, there upon the Apostle inferreth, that that is a manifest token of the just judgement of God to follow of the coming of the Lord; Furthermore this foundation being laid, the destruction of the city of Jerusalem may be added: which Christ joined with the prophecy of the last judgement, not without a great & weighty cause, that is to say, the figure with the thing signified: that we might no more doubt of his wrath to come upon the ungodly in the day of judgement, then of the shame of the Jews foreshowed of Christ, which yet they bear before our eyes. Matth. 24.