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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.
For he commandeth the wind and the sea, and they obey him, and he rebuketh the fearfulness of his disciples, Mark. 4. vers. 39.41. he giveth power also unto others to work miracles, but by calling upon his name. Mark. 8. Acts. 3. vers. 6.16. and Cap. 4 vers 10. And he is of an immutable righteousness, Jerem. 23. And this is the name whereby ⟨p. 74⟩they shall call him, Jehovah, our righteousness, Of an unspeakable mercy. Titus the 3. vers. 4. and the 6. and Chapter. 2. vers. 10. and 12. of a most constant truth. Mat. 24. vers. 35. The heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not perish. And the first of John, Full of grace & truth. Jo. 14. vers. 9 That same word, is the only begotten Son of the father, and the co-eternal image of the father.1 Jo. 1. We have seen his glory, as the glory of the only begotten of God. To the Hebr. 1. who being the brightness of his glory, (the light from the light) and very engraved form of his person of his substance, and bearing up all things by the word of his power,2 &c. And he is the Lord of all creatures, but chiefly of the faithful or of the Church, Jo. 1. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, but the world knew him not: he came amongest his own, and his own received him not. Before he came into the world he was a subsisting person, and Davids Lord, from which Christ maintaineth his divinity in the 22. of Matthew, saying. What think you of Christ? whose Son is he? they say unto him, Davids: he saith unto them, how then doth David in spirit call him Lord? saying: The Lord said unto my Lord, sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies, thy footstool. If therefore David call him, Lord, how is he his Son? Also Luk. vers. 1. verses 16.17.43. and vers. 76.77. And thou child (John Baptist) shalt be called the Prophet of the most high. For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to