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.

Of the holinesse of his concep∣tion.

IEremie 23. Beholde the dayes come, saith the Lord of hoastes. And I will raise vp a braunch to my ser∣uaunt Dauid, and this is his name whereby they shall call him. The Lorde of hoastes our righteous∣nesse. The prophesie is fulfilled. Luke 1. verses 31.22.33.35. Daniel in the 9. Chapter foretolde that the holinesse of holinesses must be annointed, where∣by in verie deede he sheweth plainely and cleerely, that his conception must be holy, and must be the seconde Temple yet standing. What, that the Prophet Isai∣ah, and Haggeus foreshewed that it shoulde come to passe, that the glorie of the seconde Temple should be much greater then the glorie of the first, it shoulde be euerlasting: was it not truely fulfilled in this most pure conception of the Sonne of God, in which by the power of the holy Ghost, that same euerlasting worde hath personally vnited the humaine nature, and hath begon to dwell in it, as in his owne Temple? As also Christ himselfe nameth his body a Temple. Ioh. 2. So both the prophesies are fulfilled, not as in a temple of stone, or a figure, whose glorie was much lesse then the glorie of Salomons Temple, neither did that Tem∣ple continewe euerlastingly, but after the Messiah was exalted, to wit, that same true Temple was ta∣ken away into the fathers glorie, neuer after to be buil∣ded againe. The prophesie of Isaias is playne in

the 60. Chapiter, vers 13. The glory of Lybanon shall come vnto thee, the firre tree, the elme, and the boxe tree together, to bewtifie the place of my sanctuary: For I will glorifie the place of my feete. And in the same place, I will make thee an eternall glorie, &c. The Prophesie of Haggai in the second Chapiter is more notable: So saith the Lorde there. Speake nowe vnto Zerubbabel, the sonne of Shealtiel, Prince of Iudah, and to Iehosua the sonne of Iehozadak the high Priest, and to the residue of the people saying, who is lefte a∣mong you that sawe this house in her fi••st glorie, and howe do you see it nowe? Is it not in your eyes in com∣parison of it, as nothing? Yet now saith the Lorde of hoastes, strengthen thy selfe Zerubbabel, &c. And a litle after: Thus saith the Lord God of hoastes, yet a little while, and I will moue the heauen and earth, and the the sea, and the drie land: and I will moue all nati∣ons, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of hoastes. Siluer is mine, and golde is mine, saith the Lorde of hoastes. The glory of this last house shalbe greater then the first, saith the Lorde of hoastes.

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