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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. Such men as have callings to do their business in the Sea, may hence gather comfort for their safety there, for God is the confidence of them that are a far off in the ⟨p. 182⟩Sea: as the same Prophet shows, Psal. 65. 5. We may trust God for our preservation on the sea aswell as on the dry land, seeing his command is as great in the one as in the other.
3. Such men as haue callings to doe their businesse in the Sea, may hence gather comfort for their safetie there, for God is the confidence of them that are a farre off in the ⟨p. 182⟩Sea: as the same Prophet shewes, Psal. 65. 5. We may trust God for our preseruation on the sea aswell as on the drie land, seeing his command is as great in the one as in the other.
Lastly, hence the Apostle Peter gathers an unanswerable confutation of Atheists that think all things will continue alike, and that there will be no breaking up of the world for the last judgement, and that things are carried merely by a natural course: for that the Earth stands out of the waters, and in the waters, if there were no higher cause then nature, the world would presently be overflowed, if God let go his hold of the waters, as manifestly appeared in the destruction of the old world, 2. Pet. 3. 5.
Lastly, hence the Apostle Peter gathers an vnanswerable confutation of Atheists that thinke all things will continue alike, and that there will be no breaking vp of the world for the last iudgement, and that things are carried meerely by a naturall course: for that the Earth stands out of the waters, and in the waters, if there were no higher cause then nature, the world would presently bee ouerflowed, if God let goe his hold of the waters, as manifestly appeared in the destruction of the old world,