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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
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I Believe that the holy Ghost is very true & everlasting God, and of the same substance together with the father and the son, and yet notwithstanding a person distinct from both, ⟨p. 232⟩as proceeding from them both. And therefore forasmuch as he is very God, I place my confidence and trust in him, as in the father and in the son, and I trust in him that he will work all, that in me, being empty of all good, that he himself hath promised in his word, & for which cause he is sent of the father & the son. Now his effects they are many and diverse. For first of all he is given, that he may witness the love of the father in our hearts, Gal. 4. & that he may lighten the eyes of our mind with the knowledge of Christ: & that through faith he may so engraft me into Christ as a branch into the vine & may make me a partaker of Christ, & all his benefits, Joh. 15. This conjunction with Christ & his benefits, which the holy ghost doeth work in us, the scripture doth express with great force when he saith, that the holy ghost doeth sprinkle us with the blood of Christ, 1. Pet 1. doth make us members of Christ, 1. Cor. 6. doth feed us with Christ, Joh. 6. doth make us drink of Christ, 1. Cor. 10. & the 12. and doth build us upon Christ. Eph. 2. In which the office and end of the holy ghost given unto us, is showed, that through faith it may most nearly knit us unto Christ, and may work the like things both in the members & head, seeing it is the same spirit, that is to say, the very same life & glory,