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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.
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 fig•t against them, Iudg. 5. 20. and these Heauens will declare their wicke•nesse, Iob 16. 27. Nor can any thing they doe be hid from him, for the light and darkenesse are his creatures, and therefore no darknesse can hide from him, Iob 22. 12, 13, 14.
3. When I consider (saith David) thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the Son of Man that thou visitest him, Psal 8. 3. 4.
3. When I consider (saith Dauid) thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the Moone and the Starres which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindefull of him, or the Sonne of Man that thou visitest him, Psal 8. 3. 4.