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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 this article.
THE meaning is: I believe that the same life which is in Jesus Christ, shall be revealed also in me: Coloss. 3. Your life is hid with Christ in God When Christ our life shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest in glory. The name of everlasting life comprehendeth in it all that same happiness and gladness both of soul and body, which the souls enjoy by and by after this ⟨p. 250⟩life through Jesus Christ, and which also the bodies joined to the souls shall enjoy with them, when they shall be taken up into the air that they may be always with the Lord. 1. Thess. 4. I confess not only this everlasting life: but I trust that it is prepared & proper to me. Christ confirmeth this propriety and feeling begun thereof, which a full fruition shall follow, saying, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but he hath passed from death to life. John. 5. vers. 24 The Apostle out of the Prophet Isaiah. 1. Cor. 1. doeth so shadow out the full fruition and the enjoying thereof, as which can not be comprehended by any thought or understanding in this life, which the eye hath not seen &c. There is a notable picture of it in the Apocalypse, chapter 21. where amongest other things he saith, I have not seen a temple in it: for the omnipotent Lord is the temple thereof, that is the lamb. Neither doeth this city need sun or moon to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the lamb is the light thereof. For God to whom in Christ we shall then be so fully joined and knit as the fountain of all goodness, that beyond him there is nothing to be desired, to the end we might be truly happy, as he saith to the father of all nations, and so to all believers