A17410:148
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our lives, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selves. With general rules of preparation, that concern either the helps, or the manner of a holy conversation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our liues, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selues. With generall rules of preparation, that concerne either the helps, or the maner of a holy conuersation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by George for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619
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31 Thou must then silence thy reason, and exalt thy faith in the point of the Trinity, which must be conceived of necessity, because all service is due to ⟨p. 87⟩the whole Trinity: Now thou needst not strive to resemble the Trinity in any likeness in thy mind, but only bring faith to believe that thy God is three in one.
31 Thou must then silence thy reason, and exalt thy faith in the point of the Trinity, which must be conceiued of necessity, because all seruice is due to ⟨p. 87⟩the whole Trinity: Now thou needst not striue to resemble the Trinity in any likenesse in thy minde, but onely bring faith to beleeue that thy God is three in one.
- 13. We must believe the Trinity of Persons.3. We must beleeue the Trinity of Persons.
4.1 It may yet help thy understanding to conceive, that God is in Christ, and the fullness of the God-head dwells in him bodily: and therefore when thou comest to worship, thou mayest set before thy mind the Humane Nature of Christ, adoring the God-head in him, as conceiving of God in that humane Nature thou thinkest of, ⟨p. 88⟩Col. 2. 9. Joh. 17. 3