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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.
2. Their variety, who can count those innumerable births of the Earth, delivering her self of the seed she received in the seasons thereof with strange distinctions, in number, colour, taste, smell, greatness, virtue, or figure, which is the more wonderful because these all come from the same womb, yea, we may behold grow out of the same clod of earth plants of strange diversity, some useful, some hurtful, yet enjoy the same earth to conceive them, and the same Sun to beget them.
2. Their variety, who can count those innumerable birthes of the Earth, deliuering her selfe of the seed shee receiued in the seasons thereof with strange distinctions, in number, colour, taste, smell, greatnesse, virtue, or figure, which is the more wonderfull because these all come from the same wombe, yea, we may behold grow out of the same clod of earth plants of strange diuersity, some vsefull, some hurtfull, yet inioy the same earth to conceiue them, and the same Sun to beget them.
3. Their glory, especially in respect of the colours: Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one little flower, for liveliness of colour, and unimitable beauty, Matthew 6. 29.
3. Their glory, especially in respect of the colours: Salomon in all his glory was not clothed like one little flower, for liuelinesse of colour, and vnimitable beauty, Mathew 6. 29.
4. Their use: and that in respect of God, and the Earth it self, and the beasts, and fowls, and man: their use in respect of God is to set out the glory of his power, skill, wisdom, and goodness,