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A08483	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.	Olevian, Caspar, 1536-1587.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1581 (1581)	STC 18807; ESTC S113494	126,658	260

must needes be therefore that Christe this king be of the substance and loines of Dauid and continue an euerlasting kinge and very man not onely in name but in the very substance and properties of a naturall fruite sprong from the loines of Dauid and abiding and raigning worlde without end in the throne of Gods maiestie in the highest heauens Hebr. 1. Which thinge bringeth vs exceeding ioye in euerlasting life for that we shall behold our nature in our brother and heade Christ to be adorned with so great glorie in all eternitie Causes for which it must needes be that the mediator of the couenant be very God with all the properties of God THe causes for which it is necessarie that the mediator be not onely very mā but also very God be these The chiefe cause is because God would declare his infinite loue And this is the meaning of that So God loued the worlde so I say that he gaue his only begotten sonne c. The second cause is next vnder this because he had receaued a commandement of the father that required an almightie worker to wit a commandement by his merite and vertue to saue the elect Nowe there is but one Almightie euen God Ioh. 10. vers 18. Out of this same second cause which properly belongeth to Christ these endes are deriued The first concerning desarte For therefore must the Mediator be verie God that that same obedience of Christ whereby so great a person which is equal to the father humbling himselfe in the nature of man that the curse might be made in it might be from the beginning of the world for al eternitie to come a matchable price or rather a price of redemption for the sinnes of all the elect of the whole worlde euen that the price might wey downe our sinnes Therefore in the 20. of the Actes it is saide That God redeemed his Church with his bloud And in the 9 to the Hebrues Also grace hath abounded aboue the fault This obedience of the Sonne when it is made a sacrifice for vs it surmounteth all obedience of Angels and al other creatures The second end is that seeing he must be a Sauiour no lesse in vertue then in merite he must first in himselfe ouercome our sinne the wrath of God and death Nowe that the waight of the infinite wrath of God in the manhoode might stand ouercome and moreouer that he might raise himself frō death it was necessary that he that should suffer should be very man in such sort that he might together be infinite that is the true and euerlasting God that is that his manhod should be personallie inseperablie vnited to his godheade of which it should vpholden that our saluation might not by any meane be in danger seeing it is impossible that that vnion should be dissolued For God alone could not die as one of the auncient fathers haue wittilie said neither could man alone ouercome death Therefore to the Romans Ca. 1. he saith that he is declared to be the sonne of God by the power of his resurrection Moreouer by his power it behoued him also to ouercome sinne and death in vs Ioh. 5. to witte by giuing faith whereby that merite might be applied vnto vs and the holy Ghoste through whō he might restore in vs the image of God and quicken vs euerlastingly and also maintaine that saluation so gotten Now forasmuch as all these things are of nature belonging to him who is almightie it was necessary that he by nature should be God almightie For who could haue performed that but he through whom man in the beginning was made after the image of God Coloss 1.3 who could haue giuen the holy Ghost which is God but he which is God himselfe who could haue restored euerlasting life but that same word the sonne of God in whō life is from the beginning Io. 1. Finaly forasmuch as God hath said I am the Lord besides me there is no sauiour it was necessarie that our sauiour Christ which by the decree of God was appointed to obtaine and bestowe saluation should be very God with all the properties of the Godhead omnipotencie eternitie infinite maiestie and glorie without which he could neither be a Sauiour nor abide for euer Why those same two natures must be vnited in the Mediator THat the foundation of that same couenant of grace or rather of that coniunction betwixt God and vs might be firme GOD would haue these two natures in Christ to be knit together after a wonderful manner to wit by the vnion of persons Now when we say that the diuine and humaine nature of Christe are personallie knit together we vnderstand that the sonne who is God hath taken mans nature into the vnitie of his person and so God is manifested in the flesh and made man but in the person of the sonne and so as the proprieties of both natures remaine safe aswel that the saluation of men might be obtained by that meane that he had appointed as also that it might be maintained and continued for euer For saluation could not haue ben obtained vnlesse mans nature and the nature of God had bene knit together in a personall vnion First because it had not beene the bloude of the Sonne of God that was to be shed and so it had not bene a sacrifice worthie enough for the sinnes of the whole worlde Moreouer the humanitie could not haue beene able to sustaine the wrath of God neither haue abolished the sinnes that were laide vpon it vnlesse the diuinitie had ben coupled vnto it into the vnitie of the person by a most firme and altogether vnlooseable knotte both which that same man Christ by the power of his diuinitie being personally knitte vnto him hath perfourmed Acts 20. Philip. 2. Hebr. 19.14 Coloss 1. vers 14.15 And much lesse also might saluation nowe obtained be maintained vnlesse they were knit together and might so remaine for euer For euen like as it was required for the entry to that priesthoode and for the prouiding of full satisfaction that there should be the body and soule of the sonne of God in which there might be satisfaction so also that the priesthoode might be euerlasting and an euerlasting intercession be made for vs it must be that that same humane nature be properly belonging to the sonne of God which he must shewe before the face of the father in heauen in which as our sinnes are once cleansed so it might be the pledge of our reconciliation for euer Psal 110.1 and the 4. Matth. 22. vers 44. Moreouer that same man Christ could not by his vertue and power be a sauiour vnlesse also he had the diuine nature ioyned vnto him into the vnitie of person from which together as also from the father proceedeth the holy ghoste who bringeth vs into the possession of Christ engraffeth vs into Christ and begetteth vs againe into euerlasting life 1. Cor. 15. verse 21.45 Rom. 8. verse 8.9

And surely as they can not any more fall from euerlasting life whiche are truely once engraffed into Christe by the holy Ghoste so that very worde the euerlasting Sonne of God of the substance of the Father to wit that same very fountaine of life in which life was from the beginning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn 1. taken in the nature of man to endure euerlastingly must dwell bodily that is to say personally For seeing that same highe maiestie of God was moste farre separated from our wretched condition and yet notwithstanding hee had appointed for his infinite loue toward vs moste wretched castawayes through grace to ioyne his diuinitie which is the fountaine of all happines to the end it might endure for euer it was needefull that hee should also ioine our humane nature taken out of the lumpe of mankinde vnto his diuinitie by a personal vnion Col. 1. verse 9.10 Otherwise we should not haue had neerenes enough nor sufficient stedfast kinred as it were with God which might assure our faith that God doth truely dwel with vs that Christ is and euerlastingly should be Immanuel that is God with vs. Isai 7. Mat. 1. What the personal vnion is and wherefore it is that the properties of both natures must remaine whole and sound in it THe personall vnion is the knitting together of two natures in Christ to wit of the diuine and humane in which admitte that the one be and remaine the maker and without beginning and the other be and remaine created and therefore haue a beginning one be of the same substance together with the Father the other be of the same substance with vs one be almightie because it is God the other be not almightie because the creature is not the creator neither are there two almightie ones but one almightie one one be and remaine infinite but the other be not infinite but finite hauing a finite head armes feete c. Admitte I say that these natures are most diuerse and remaine euerlastingly distinguished in their properties for as much as the creator will euerlastingly remaine distinct from all creatures yea from that same lumpe which it hath taken yet notwithstanding they are so coupled together that they make one Indiuiduum to wit Christe All this may be seene by the conception in which that same personall vnion was once perfectly made neither was it euer afterwardes otherwise made Ioh. 1.3 cap. 14. Hebr. 2.16 Seeing therfore that the couenant of saluation betweene God and men is euerlasting it must needes be concluded that in the person of Christ as in the foundation these two natures are so euerlastingly vnited together that in meane season the trueth of either nature remaine for euer with their properties and that neither be swallowed vp of the other vnlesse we would haue the couenant to be weakened and plucked vp from the very foundations For euen like as for the entring into the couenant and reconciliation with God that both those natures in the mediatour must be true and sound keeping their properties so also forasmuch as the couenant conjunction must endure in all euerlastingnes that this same our true and very flesh and bones may enioye the same happines that after our resurrection Philip. 3. it behoueth also that in the foundation to wit in the mediator vpon whome the office of sauing vs is euerlastingly laide there remaine for euer the same whole humaine nature both soule and body flesh and bones For the nature of any one beeing ouerthrowen or the properties thereof denied the couenant it self falleth that is it can neither be entred into nor be preserued as before is shewed Suffred vnder Pontius Pilate Testimonies out of the Prophets Apostles whereby it is shewed that Christ must not die by tumult but must suffer vnder a iudge and that when a straunge magistrate should exercise iudgement Isai 53. HE was reckoned amongest the wicked Therfore be must not perish by tumult but must be iudged or reputed amongest the wicked Wherto also that belongeth He was woūded for our iniquities smitten for our wickednesses The chastisemēt of our peace was vpon him and in his stripes we were healed And in the same place He was taken away by iudgement Therefore he must come into iudgement With these Propheticall sayinges agreeth truely that Propheticall explication of Christ which is extant in the 18. of Luke Beholde we goe vppe to Hierusalem and all thinges shal be fulfilled that are written by the Prophetes concerning the sonne of man He shal be deliuered vp to the nations and shal be mocked and euill entreated of them And after they shall haue whipped him they shall kill him and the third day he shall rise againe And Luke the 24. To those that went to Emaus he saith O fooles and slowe of hearte to beleeue all things which the Prophets haue spoken Ought not Christ to haue suffered these thinges and to enter into his glorie And beginning from Moses and all the Prophets he interpreted in all the scripture those thinges which were concerning him Acts 4. They gathered themselues truely together against thy holy sonne Iesus whom thou anointedst Herode also and Pontius Pilate with the nations people of Israel to doe whatsoeuer thy hand and Counsel had first determined should be done Now that he must suffer when a straunge magistrate executed iudgement the which thing the very mention of Pontius Pilate sheweth these Prophesies witnesse Genes 49. The Prophesie of the Patriarch Iacob The scepter shall not depart from Iudah till Schiloh come is throughly fulfilled when the scepter was translated from Iudah and when Pilate in the name of Caesar executed iudgement And the Prophesie of Zachary in the 6. cap. that a braunch shall builde a Temple the glory wherof should become greater then the glorie of the first Tēple And then must altogether be fulfilled as Ezechiel also in the 21. Cap. the 26. ver hath plainly prophesied when the golden crownes should be taken from the heades of the Kings of Iudah But when Pilate was president the Iewes acknowledge that they haue no other king but Caesar and so they professe that the crowne was taken from the heades of the Kinges of Iudah therefore now the time was come that they should destroy the temple of the bodie of Christ and that that same branch should reedifie it againe or that he should raise it vp the 3. day The glorie of which temple namely of the body of Christ raised vp from the dead in which the Deitie dwelleth bodily doth surpasse at this day and shal doe euerlastingly the glorie of the first temple according to the prophesie of Haggai in the second Chap. Why Christe must be condemned by a iudge before the iudgement seate THou must looke vpon God him selfe the Iudge exercising iudgement by the mouth of Pilate Christe is set before the tribunal seate of GOD here in earth laden with thine and mine wickednesses ready to