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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.
1. Our souls should bless God, and give him thanks, because he is very great, and hath showed his great wisdom ⟨p. 167⟩in making the heavens, and his mighty power in stretching them out like a curtain, and all this through his great mercy to man, which endureth for ever, Psalm 104. 1. 2. & 136. 5.
1. Our soules should blesse God, and giue him thankes, because he is very great, and hath shewed his great wisedome ⟨p. 167⟩in making the heauens, and his mighty power in stretching them out like a curtaine, and all this through his great mercie to man, which endureth for euer, Psalme 104. 1. 2. & 136. 5.
2. Woe to wicked men that by their sins provoke God, they cannot escape his wrath, God hath compassed them in with the heavens, and can make the very Stars of Heaven fight against them, Judg. 5. 20. and these Heavens will declare their wickedness, Job 16. 27. Nor can any thing they do be hid from him, for the light and darkness are his creatures, and therefore no darkness can hide from him, Job 22. 12, 13, 14.
2. Woe to wicked men that by their sinnes prouoke God, they cannot escape his wrath, God hath compassed them in with the heauens, and can make the very Starres of Heauen figt against them,