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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 1 › Maker of Heaven and Earth. › Question and answer 3: Quest. 3. But why do you not entreat of Devils here also?THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › Maker of Heauen and Earth. › Question and answer 3: Quest. 3. But why doe you not intreat of Deuills here also?

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Quest. 3. But why do you not entreat of Devils here ¹also?

Quest. 3. But why doe you not intreat of Deuills here ¹also?

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Answ. There were no Devils by creation, GOD made ¹them not as Devils: and therefore it belongs not to the Doctrine of Creation to speak of the evil angels, because that belongs to the Doctrine of the fall of the reasonable Creatures.

Answ. There were no Deuills by creation, GOD made ¹them not as Deuills: and therefore it belongs not to the Doctrine of Creation to speake of the euill angels, because that belongs to the Doctrine of the fall of the reasonable Creatures.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622

Place

London

Printer

G.M.

Bookseller

Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith

Year

1626

Size

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p.

Words

212,467

Catalogue

STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

Text

EEBO-TCP A69028

Passages

2,700

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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Quest. 3. But why do you not entreat of Devils here ¹also?

Quest. 3. But why doe you not intreat of Deuills here ¹also?

Quest. 4. But hath every particular man a good Angel and a bad?¹

Quest. 4. But hath euery particular man a good Angell and a bad?¹

Transcription key

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Quest. 3. But why do you not entreat of Devils here 1also?

Quest. 3. But why doe you not intreat of Deuills here 1also?

Quest. 4. But hath every particular man a good Angel and a bad?1

Quest. 4. But hath euery particular man a good Angell and a bad?1

Transcription key

Quest. 3. But why do you not entreat of Devils here ¹also?

Quest. 3. But why doe you not intreat of Deuills here ¹also?

Quest. 4. But hath every particular man a good Angel and a bad?¹

Quest. 4. But hath euery particular man a good Angell and a bad?¹