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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. The Lightnings are called Gods Arrows, 2. Sam. 22. 14. 15. and so they are wonderful, if we consider, that it is God only that divided a way for the Lightning, Job 38. 25. & 28. 26. and that God can by these Arrows discomfit an Army of enemies, Psal. 144. 6. and that God can shoot so far with them (viz) from one end of the Heaven to another, Mat. 24. 27. and that God doth make the Lightnings with the rain at the same time, when one would think the rain should quench the fire of the Lightning, Psal. 135. 7. and this observation of the Psalmist, the Prophet Jeremiah twice allegeth Verbatim as a matter of wonder, Jer. 10. 13 & 51. 26.
2. The Lightnings are called Gods Arrowes, 2. Sam. 22. 14. 15. and so they are wonderfull, if we consider, that it is God onely that diuided a way for the Lightning, Iob 38. 25. & 28. 26. and that God can by these Arrowes discomfit an Armie of enemies, Psal. 144. 6. and that God can shoot so farre with them (viz) from one end of the Heauen to another, Mat. 24. 27. and that God doth make the Lightnings with the raine at the same time, when one would thinke the raine should quench the fire of the Lightning, Psal. 135. 7