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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milk for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his son, Adoniram Bifield.The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milke for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his sonne, Adoniram Bifield.
London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5 By the manner of their being and working in respect of time and place: for Angels are in place definitively, not circumscriptively, as they say in Schools: that is, they are so in place that wholly they are there, they cannot be said to be in another place, but yet while they are there, it cannot be told by any creature, what room they take up, or how much place they fill, for length, breadth, or height or depth: and so for time, they do not work in a moment as God doth: but yet in respect of us they work strange things in an unperceivable time: and to shadow that out, they are described to have wings, not that they have, but by way of signification, or resemblance.
5 By the manner of their being and working in respect of time and place: for Angels are in place definitiuely, not circumscriptiuely, as they say in Schooles: that is, they are so in place that wholly they are there, they cannot bee said to be in another place, but yet while they are there, it cannot be told by any creature, what roome they take vp, or how much place they fill, for length, bredth, or height or depth: and so for time, they doe not worke in a moment as God doth: but yet in respect of vs they worke strange things in an vnperceiueable time: and to shadow that out, they are described to haue wings, not that they haue, but by way of signification, or resemblance.
6 By the gifts with which God endowed them, when he made them: I will instance in their knowledge and power: for knowledge it must needs be great in Angels: for besides the knowledge they had naturally by Creation, they know strange things by revelation from God, and by experience gather many things from the course of things in ⟨p. 158⟩the world, or their causes in nature, and the manifold wisdom of God is made known to Angels by the preaching of the Gospel, which they see into with wonderful ability, though men be so dull and blockish in hearing, 1 Cor. 11. 10