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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 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, Job 28. 25.
2. The direction of them in their Motion: no man can hold the winde in his fistes, nor turne them out of the way to alter their Motion: yet are the very windes subiect vnto Gods order: either to be still, Mat. 8. 27. or to goe on as he shall direct both when, and whither, and as he will in all things. It is admirable that such bustling and vnruly creatures, as the windes should bee made to pace orderly: yet it is said, that God weighs euen the windes and before he sends them out, he looketh to the ends of the whole earth, and seeth exactly vnder the whole Heauens to appoint their Motion and their way, Iob 28. 25.
3. The use God puts the wind to, sometimes they serve to bring the rain, 1King. 18. 45. sometimes they serve in steed of posts and messengers: so they fetched Locusts, Ex. 10. 13. and quails, Numb. 11. 31. sometimes God useth them to draw his Chariots. The clouds are Gods Chariot, and it is drawn by wings, not by horses: and the wings are the wind. Thus God rideth on the wings of the wind,