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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. 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, Hosea 2. 8. and if they themselves, that look for fruit from the earth, live unfruitfully: if they cut down unfruitful trees, God will cut down and root out unfruitful men.
2. To wicked men, and that in diuers respects, for first, euen in these things God can be reuenged on them, by restraining the fruits of the earth from them, Deut. 11. 15, &c. Hosea 3. 8, Ier. 12. 13. Ioel 2. 1. secondly, God hath threatned to make them and their glory like the grasse 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 dishonor, in surfetting and drunkennesse, or Idolatry, or strange apparell or the like, Hosea 2. 8. and if they themselues, that looke for fruite from the earth, liue vnfruitfully: if they cut downe vnfruitfull trees, God will cut downe and root out vnfruitefull men.