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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.
3 We should be wonderful thankful to God even for these blessings of Heaven. They were wont in the first ages of the world, to think they had cause to praise God for the very dew of Heaven, Gen. 25. 28, 39. Deut. 33. 13, 28. We are exhorted to sing praise to God, who covereth the Heaven with Clouds, and prepareth rain for the Earth, Psal. 147. 7, 8. Men use to give a great deal of money to buy a little land, and yet cannot praise him that gives them what is more worth then that they buy; for it is God that giveth the dew, and the snow, and the rain, and so the Grass and the Corn, without which the Land were worth nothing.
3 We should bee wonderfull thankfull to God euen for these blessings of Heauen. They were wont in the first ages of the world, to thinke they had cause to praise God for the very dew of Heauen, Gen. 25. 28, 39. Deut. 33. 13, 28. Wee are exhorted to sing praise to God, who couereth the Heauen with Clouds, and prepareth raine for the Earth, Psal. 147. 7, 8. Men vse to giue a great deale of mony to buy a little land, and yet cannot praise him that giues them what is more worth then that they buy; for it is God that giueth the dew, and the snow, and the raine, and so the Grasse and the Corne, without which the Land were worth nothing.
4 Seeing God hath wrought wonderfully in these things, and that they are so precious for our uses, we must learn (if at any time God restrain these blessings of Heaven) to seek them by prayer and repentance for our sins,