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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.
The contemplation of the vegetables may serve for Humiliation also.
The contemplation of the vegetables may serue for Humiliation also.
1. To all men, when they behold Thorns, bristles, and thistles, and weeds, for these are a standing Monument of mans sin, and do daily upbraid him to his face, being the fruits of malediction: for the Earth is cursed for mans sake, Gen. 3.
1. To all men, when they behold Thornes, bristles, and thisties, and weedes, for these are a standing Monument of mans sinne, and doe daily vpbraid him to his face, being the fruites of malediction: for the Earth is cursed for mans sake, Gen. 3.
2. To wicked men, and that in divers respects, for first, even in these things God can be revenged on them, by restraining the fruits of the earth from them, Deut. 11. 15, &c. Hosea 3. 8, Jer. 12. 13. Joel 2. 1. secondly, God hath threatened to make them and their glory like the grass of the field, Psal. 92. 7 & 37. 2. But these brutish men will not be warned by these Monitors: and the rather will the Lord be incensed against them if they abuse these creatures to his dishonour, in surfeiting and drunkenness, or Idolatry, or strange apparel or the like,