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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. The original of them: No man knoweth whence they come nor whither they go, John 3. 7. Yea, God challengeth it as his own special glory to create the winds, and reckons that work with the forming of the Mountains, and the telling of man what he thinks, Amos 4. 13. but where God puts the winds after he hath created them, we know not, only that he bringeth them out of his treasure, Psalm 135. 7.
1. The originall of them: No man knoweth whence they come nor whither they goe, Iohn 3. 7. Yea, God challengeth it as his owne speciall glory to create the windes, and reckons that worke with the forming of the Mountaines, and the telling of man what he thinkes, Amos 4. 13. but where God puts the winds after he hath created them, wee know not, onely that he bringeth them out of his treasure, Psalme 135. 7.
2. The direction of them in their Motion: no man can hold the wind in his fists, nor turn them out of the way to alter their Motion: yet are the very winds subject unto Gods order: either to be still, Mat. 8. 27. or to go on as he shall direct both when, and whither, and as he will in all things. It is admirable that such bustling and unruly creatures, as the winds should be made to pace orderly: yet it is said, that God weighs even the winds and before he sends them out, he looketh to the ends of the whole earth, and seeth exactly under the whole Heavens to appoint their Motion and their way,