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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. I• should teach godly men contentation in all estates, if God be the King of the whole Earth, then all his children are the great Princes of the world, Psal. 47. 9. and can want nothing that is needful for them, because the Earth is the Lords and all the fullness thereof, Psal. 24. 1. Zach. 4. 14. which if it be seriously considered, all men have cause to say, verily there is a reward for the righteous, Psal. 58. 12. and if ⟨p. 184⟩wicked men break their bonds and break in upon their possessions, they have a comfortable recourse to that God that set the borders of the Earth, and gave the lot to his people, Psal. 74. 17. 18. and if the earth can last so long, then the children of his servants shall much more endure for ever, Psalm 102. 25. 26. 28. and if the Word of the Lord be so unmoveable, that by it the earth is upheld, then will the word of his promise to his servants be sure to all generations, Psal. 119. 90. and therefore of all men (Oh ye Righteous) ye are blessed of the Lord which made Heaven & Earth, Psal▪ 115. 13, 14, 15, 16. and therefore also in all the occasions of our lives we should remember that our help cometh from the Lord which made Heaven and Earth, Psal. 121. 2. & 134. 3.
3. I• should teach godly men contentation in all estates, if God be the King of the whole Earth, then all his children are the great Princes of the world,