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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.
The end of making a world of bodies, as well as of spirits was not the punishment of spiritual substances, for their sinning against God, as Origen dreamed, but the setting out of Gods glory, in showing his wisdom, goodness and power, Psal. 19. Rom. 1. and the furnishing of man for his happy being.
The end of making a world of bodies, as well as of spirits was not the punishment of spirituall substances, for their sinning against God, as Origen dreamed, but the setting out of Gods glory, in shewing his wisdome, goodnesse and power, Psal. 19. Rom. 1. and the furnishing of man for his happy being.
That our hearts may be affected with wondering at this great world which God hath made: we may profitably consider of it, either by thinking what it is like, or by serious pondering what it is indeed.
This great world is like a great Garden throughly furnished, every creature being as a pleasant flower exquisitely ranked in most comely order, the only weeds that grow in this Garden, are wicked men: as it may be likened to a great Book, in which God hath written glorious things that concern the praise of his goodness, wisdom and power: Every creature is, as it were, a distinct lease of that Book, and the properties and uses of these creatures are, as it were, the several lines and letters of that leaf: and the more admirable, because it is a Book; the writing whereof is indelible, and the uses whereof are universal: the Book so opened, that all men in all parts of the world may see and read. Again, this visible world may be likened to a great and fair house, most exquisitely buil, and contrived into several rooms, and every room richly furnished; the Heavens are the Roof, the Earth the floor, and the Elements the several rooms, and the hosts