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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.
3. The Original of their names: for it was Adam that gave the names to the Fowls, Gen. 2. 19.
3. The Originall of their names: for it was Adam that gaue the names to the Foules, Gen. 2. 19.
4. Their inferiority to man, both in that wisdom is not in them, Job 28. 21. and in that God hath planted in the Fowls a natural fear of man more then any other creature, Gen. 9. 2.
4. Their inferiority to man, both in that wisedome is not in them, Iob 28. 21. and in that God hath planted in the Foules a natural feare of man more then any other creature, Gen. 9. 2.
5. The care that God hath for the very Fowls: for first, he knows all the Fowls in the Mountain, Psal 50. 11. secondly, he provides food for them without their own industry, Mat. 6. Psal. 147. 9. thirdly, he hath taught them skill to build them Nests to dwell in,