An exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenor…An exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenour…

¹Now follows the consolations and comforts which Gods Church and children reap hereby. First, he that believes in God, and takes God for his God, may assure him self of salvation, and of a happy deliverance in all dangers and necessities. When God threatened a plague upon Israel for their idolatry,² good king Josiah humbled him self before the Lord: and he was safe all his days. And so King Hezekiah, when Sennacherib the king of Ashur offered to invade Judah, he trusted in the Lord, and prayed unto him, and was delivered. Whereby we see, if a man trust in God, he shall have security and quietness,³ as Jehoshaphat said to the men of Judah. And our Saviour Christ when he was upon the cross, and felt the whole burden of the wrath of God upon him, cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. And it appeareth in the Epistle to the Hebrews, that Christ was heard in that he feared:⁴ whereby we are given to understand, that they shall never be utterly forsaken that take God for their God.⁵ And King David having experience of this, useth most excellent speeches for this end, to show that the ground of his comfort was, that God was his God. And it is said that Daniel had no manner of hurt in the Lyons den;⁶ because he trusted in the Lord his God. And contrariwise, such as distrust God are subject to all miseries and judgements. ⟨p. 25⟩The Israelites in the wilderness believed not God, and trusted not in his help, therefore God was angry, ⁷and his fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath came upon Israel.

¹Nowe followes the consolations and comforts which Gods Church and children reape hereby. First, he that beleeues in God, and takes God for his God, may assure him selfe of saluation, and of a happie deliuerance in all daungers and necessities. When God threatned a plague vpon Israel for their idolatrie,