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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 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, Psal. 135. 7. that he weigheth the waters by measure, when he maketh a decree for the rain, seeing to it and preparing it, and searching out all things that concern the falling of every drop of the rain, so as not any of it falls in vain, or in a wrong place, Job 28. 25, 26, 27. & 37. 12.
2 For the wonderfull working of God in the placing and ordering of them: as that God should binde vp the waters in his thicke Cloud, and yet the Cloud not to bee rent vnder ⟨p. 175⟩them, Iob 26. 8, 9. and that God should shake the Pillars of Heauen, and yet Heauen falls not, verse 11. that God can fetch vp and cause the vapours to ascend from the very ends of the earth, Psal. 135. 7. that hee weigheth the waters by measure, when he maketh a decree for the raine, seeing to it and preparing it, and searching out all things that concerne the falling of euery drop of the raine, so as not any of it falls in vaine, or in a wrong place, Iob 28. 25, 26, 27. & 37. 12.