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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 dead aswell righteous as unrighteous must needs rise again.
That the dead aswell righteous as vnrighteous must needes rise againe.
The resurrection of the dead hath most sure and certain foundations. First of all the infinite power of God, whereby he could create our bodies of nothing, and whereby he can ⟨p. 247⟩bring all things under subjection to himself, Gene. 1. Rom. 4. Philip. 3. Further his unchangeable will, wherein he hath declared his righteousness, upon which foundation, the reason of the Apostle (2. Thess. 1.) leaneth. For it is a righteous thing, with God (saith he) to render affliction unto them which afflict you, and to you who are afflicted, release together with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the Angels of his power. The righteousness of God requireth, that not other bodies, but even the very bodies, of the wicked be afflicted, and that the bodies of the godly receive that promised release: now whatsoever God can, and will that of necessity is done.
THe resurrection of the dead hath most sure and certaine foundations. First of all the infinite power of God, whereby he could create our bodies of nothing, and whereby he can ⟨p. 247⟩