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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. 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, Psalm 104. 24. their use in respect of the Earth, is to cover her nakedness as with a rich garment of divers colours: How horrid would the Earth look, if it were not apparelled, with grass, herbs, corn, and trees? their use in respect of the Beasts and Fowls, is both to feed them, and to harbour them: The Birds lodge in the trees, and the Beasts feed on the grass of the field, Psalm 104. 14. 17. 1Their use in respect of man is to serve for his service, food, delight, and the curing of his wounds and diseases. God made the herb for the service of man, and brings his food out of the Earth, and bread that strengtheneth the heart of man, and wine that makes him glad, and oil to ⟨p. 187⟩make his face shine, Psal. 104. 14. 15. to which add, the herb and plant for the curing of his wounds and diseases: how hath the Lord provided remedies for all the diseases of man, even out of the Earth, and with what strange varieties, so as there is scarce any disease a man hath, but he hath caused to grow out of the Earth, perhaps within a little space of time, some herb or plant or other that may ease him or cure him, Gen. 1. •9.
4. Their vse: and that in respect of God, and the Earth it selfe, and the beasts, and foules, and man: their vse in respect of God is to set out the glory of his power, skill, wisedome, and goodnesse, Psalme 104. 24. their vse in respect of the Earth, is to couer her nakednesse as with a rich garment of diuers colours: How horrid would the Earth looke, if it were not apparelled, with grasse, herbes, corne, and trees? their vse in respect of the Beasts and Foules, is both to feed them, and to harbour them: The Birds lodge in the trees, and the Beasts feede on the grasse of the field,