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.

Why the Church is called Holy.

BEcause none can be vnited vnto God, vnlesse he be holie and pure, euen as God is holie & pure: therefore I doe vndoubtedly beleeue that God doth iustifie and also purge those whom he hath chosen to this inseparable vnion to holinesse and innocencie of life, that the glo∣rie of God may shine in them, Rom. 8. Ephes. 5. Nowe the Church is holy two maner of waies, by renouation, and by imputation. By reno∣uation in it selfe, that same holinesse is onely begun: Rom. 7. Of this same first manner of holinesse, it is saide, 2. Cor. 7. Working your san∣ctification, and 1. Thes. 4. ver. 7. But by imputation her holines is most perfect in Christ, as he saith,

I sanctifie my selfe for them. In this second manner of holinesse I beleeue that there is no sinne, no death in the Church, that is to say, that no fault or punishment is imputed to the true members of the Church. Because they that beleeue in Christ, are not sinners, are not guiltie of death, but are simply holie, and righteous, Lords ouer sinne and death in Christ, and liue for euer. Ro. 5. ver. 8.9. and Heb. 10. ver. 14. Colo. 2. ver. 10. Ro. 8.1. Thess. 5.10.