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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.
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, 2. Pet. 3. 5.
Thus of the Waters.
The Earth is considered of in the Scriptures, either in it self, or in the fruits of it, or in the Inhabitants of it.
The Earth is considered of in the Scriptures, either in it selfe, or in the fruits of it, or in the Inhabitants of it.