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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.
Thus of the Earth in it self generally considered: It follows to consider of the things that are in the Earth or belong to it, and so the Scripture commends to our consideration either the things that are within the Earth, or the things that are upon the Earth: Things within the Earth are the Minerals: things upon the Earth, are the vegetables and living creatures.
Thus of the Earth in it selfe generally considered: It followes to consider of the things that are in the Earth or belong to it, and so the Scripture commends to our consideration either the things that are within the Earth, or the things that are vpon the Earth: Things within the Earth are the Mineralls: things vpon the Earth, are the vegetables and liuing creatures.
About the Minerals little is spoken in Scripture, and I will instance but in one place, and that is Job 28. 1. to 12. where is offered to our consideration.
About the Mineralls little is spoken in Scripture, and I will instance but in one place, and that is Iob 28. 1. to 12. where is offered to our consideration.
1. The straying veins of the Earth, full of Riches, and wonder: as the vein for Silver, and the place for gold, and the stones that lie in darkness and in the shadow of death, and the iron and brass which is molten out of the Earth, verse 1. 2. 3. and in some places of the Earth, the stones thereof are the places of Sapphires, and it hath dust of gold, verse 6.