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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 same bodies, which we bear here, shall rise again.
That the same bodies, which we beare here, shal rise againe.
These very same bodies and none other concerning the substance, shall rise again. For God is the fountain of life, who hath taken into his covenant not half man, but whole man, and therefore shall quicken our bodies that are confederates unto him. For the God of Abraham of Isaac, and of Jacob, who is also our God, is not the GOD of the living, but of the dead, like as Christ himself proveth the resurrection by the covenant. Therefore these very same bodies in respect of the substance, shall rise again. But if any man will ask concerning ⟨p. 248⟩the qualities, there is a great diversity, and so is that same voice of Christ to be understood, Matth. 22. that in the resurrection we shall be as the Angels of God in heaven. And Christ saith, Matthew 13. Then the righteous shall shine as the sun. For this cause the bodies of the faithful are called clarified bodies, of the clearness of the heavenly light wherewith they are enlightened: and they are called glorious bodies, of that same glory which appeareth in that same clearness, (as in the face of Moses) & spiritual bodies of the spirit of Christ by which they are quickened & beautified, not to return again to nothing. Now the cause of this our glorious resurrection is set forth in the third fruit of the resurrection of Christ. Indeed the bodies of the wicked shall also rise again, as I showed before when I set forth the foundations of the resurrection. And Paul expresseth this: Acts 24. But in a condition and quality diverse from the godly. For infirmity, shame, corruption and misery shall not be taken from the bodies of the ungodly: but like as they rise in shame, so by the judgement and power of God they shall be confirmed in shame and corruption: so that they shall be made immortal and incorruptible in corruption and death it self, not to be consumed with any torments, but as it were hot burning iron, they shall burn for ever,