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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.
4 That he keeps them so strangely from drowning the whole Earth without any other Bars or Doors then the word of his own Power, saying to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves stand, Job 38. 8, 10, 11. making the very Sands in a plain to stay the raging waves of the Sea, and to be the bounds thereof, Jerem. 5. 22. giving his decree to the waters once for all in the beginning, that they should not pass his ⟨p. 179⟩Commandment, Prou. 8. 29. and to that end he sets a watch over the Sea, Job 7. 12.
4 That hee keepes them so strangely from drowning the whole Earth without any other Barres or Doores then the word of his owne Power, saying to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and heere shall thy proud waues stand, Iob 38. 8, 10, 11. making the very Sands in a plaine to stay the raging waues of the Sea, and to bee the bounds thereof, Ierem. 5. 22. giuing his decree to the waters once for all in the beginning, that they should not passe his ⟨p. 179⟩Commandement, Prou. 8. 29. and to that end hee sets a watch ouer the Sea, Iob 7. 12.