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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 What we may observe by the sense of seeing: and that is the strange varieties and perfection of colours, that God by his power gathereth in that manner into the Air, which Air of it self is without any colour, raised and dissolved again after a little time without any remnant of these colours left.
1 What we may obserue by the sense of seeing: and that is the strange varieties and perfection of colours, that God by his power gathereth in that manner into the Ayre, which Ayre of it selfe is without any colour, raised and dissolued againe after a little time without any remnant of these colours left.
2 What we may read in Scripture of it: and that is both concerning the Author of it, and the end of it. The Author of it is God, who calleth it his Bow; and the end is by Gods own appointment, to secure and assure man that the world shall never be destroyed by waters any more; which is the more wonderful, because the Rainbow in it self is often a fore▪runner of Rain, as experience shows, and by the descending of the two horns of it to the Earth and Seas, doth drink up vapours, and carry them into the Air to breed Rain, Gen. 9.
2 What we may reade in Scripture of it: and that is both concerning the Author of it, and the end of it. The Author of it is God, who calleth it his Bow; and the end is by Gods owne appointment, to secure and assure man that the world shall neuer be destroyed by waters any more; which is the more wonderfull, because the Rainebow in it selfe is often a fore▪runner of Raine, as experience shewes, and by the descending of the two hornes of it to the Earth and Seas, doth drinke vp vapours, and carry them into the Ayre to breede Raine, Gen. 9.