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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. The rivers of waters which run within the Earth even through the Rocks, as if God had cut a way for them, verse 10.
4. The riuers of waters which runne within the Earth euen through the Rocks, as if God had cut a way for them, verse 10.
But I come to the things that are upon the earth, and so first to the vegetables, that is, the the plants that cover the earth: viz. grass, grain, herbs, and trees, and these I consider altogether, and so God chargeth us to take notice of four divers things about them.
But I come to the things that are vpon the earth, and so first to the vegetables, that is, the the plants that couer the earth: viz. grasse, graine, herbes, and trees, and these I consider altogether, and so God chargeth vs to take notice of foure diuers things about them.
1. Their original, which may be considered as supernatural or natural, or artificial: God gave them a being above the the course of nature or Art, when he made them grow out of the earth without seed, Gen. 1. 11. 12. and for a time after made them flourish, when there was yet no rain to fall on the earth, and no man to till it, Gen. 2. 5. 6. Their natural ⟨p. 186⟩original is not without worthy observation, the Earth being like a Mother to the seed of all plants, receiveth it into her womb, and the Sun in the seasons of the year doing the Office of a Father: The artificial original they have is from man, whom God hath taught the skill and power, by setting, sowing, ploughing, watering, insition and inoculating in due seasons, to make as it were a new and another Creation, Isaiah 28. which cometh from the Lord, who is wonderful in working and excellent in counsel, verse 22. 24. 25. 26. 29.