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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.
These things are commended in Scripture:
1 For the wonder of their original: who can tell who is the Father of the Rain, and who hath begotten the drops of the Dew, out of whose womb came the Ice, and who hath gendered the hoar Frost that comes from Heaven? who can show the secret of hiding the waters as with a stone, and freezing the face of the deep: who can lift up his voice to the Clouds, that abundance of waters may come down? Job 38. 28, 29, 30, 34.
1 For the wonder of their originall: who can tell who is the Father of the Raine, and who hath begotten the drops of the Deaw, out of whose wombe came the Ice, and who hath gendered the hoare Frost that comes from Heauen? who can shew the secret of hiding the waters as with a stone, and freezing the face of the deepe: who can lift vp his voice to the Clouds, that abundance of waters may come downe? Iob 38. 28, 29, 30, 34.
2 For the wonderful working of God in the placing and ordering of them: as that God should bind up the waters in his thick Cloud, and yet the Cloud not to be rent under ⟨p. 175⟩them, Job 26. 8, 9. and that God should shake the Pillars of Heaven, and yet Heaven falls not, verse 11. that God can fetch up and cause the vapours to ascend from the very ends of the earth,