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.

In God the father.

BY the name of the father, we are put in minde of that same most streight couenant confirmed betweene God and vs, in Christ his onely sonne, and of his vnchangable loue towards vs. Iohn, 17. O holy father, keepe them through thy name, whom thou hast giuen me, that they may bee one, euen as wee are one. Also, That the world may know that I was sent from thee, and that thou louest them euen as thou hast loued me.

For albeit he be named father, in respect of his coeternall sonne: yet we rightly gather there∣of, that he is also in a free & vndeserued fauor

our father, because he hath promised in his sonne, that hee will become such a one vnto vs, and hath performed it in deede, when he gaue his onely begotten sonne to be our bro∣ther, and made vs in his sonne, reconciled vnto him selfe his members, and so adopted vs into his children. Ephe. 1. vers. 5. Iohn, 1. ver. 12 Which thing also (hauing wrought that same full reconciliation) Christ witnesseth, Iohn, 20. I ascend vnto my father, and to your father; to my God and to your God. Wherefore the true Citizens of the kingdome of Christ haue God for their father imbracing them with the same loue, wherewith he imbraceth his onely begotten sonne. Ephes. 1. vers. 6. 1. Iohn, vers. 3, 12.