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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.
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.
1. Their originall, which may be considered as supernaturall or naturall, or artificiall: God gaue them a being aboue the the course of nature or Art, when he made them grow out of the earth without seede, Gen. 1. 11. 12. and for a time after made them flourish, when there was yet no raine to fall on the earth, and no man to till it, Gen. 2. 5. 6. Their naturall ⟨p. 186⟩originall is not without worthie obseruation, the Earth being like a Mother to the seede of all plants, receiueth it into her wombe, and the Sunne in the seasons of the yeere doing the Office of a Father: The artificiall originall they haue is from man, whom God hath taught the skill and power, by setting, sowing, plowing, watering, insition and inoculating in due seasons, to make as it were a new and another Creation, Esay 28. which commeth from the Lord, who is wonderfull in working and excellent in counsell, verse 22. 24. 25. 26. 29.