A69028:1202
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. The great variety that appears in these creatures: The man ifold wisdom and power of the great Workman appears in the several forms, faces, forces, and uses, he hath declared upon these creatures: who can count the variety of Gods Workmanship in them? The sorts and numbers of creatures are in respect of us innumerable.
1. The great variety that appeares in these creatures: The man ifold wisedome and power of the great Workeman appeares in the seuerall formes, faces, forces, and vses, he hath declared vpon these creatures: who can count the variety of Gods Workemanship in them? The sorts and numbers of creatures are in respect of vs innumerable.
2. The motion and sense that is in the creatures, which see, hear, smell, taste, and stir up and down, by force of some ⟨p. 190⟩power and cause which God hath set in them which we see not: it must needs be strange to see creatures of such bigness stir themselves with such variety of Motions, and yet nothing from without to lift them. The skillfullest Artificers in the world, though they can make strange and curious forms of things, yet they cannot make them stir, or live, or see, &c. When they made Gods of Pictures, yet they could not make them move or live, &c.
2. The motion and sense that is in the creatures, which see, heare, smell, taste, and stirre vp and downe, by force of some ⟨p. 190⟩power and cause which God hath set in them which wee see not: it must needs bee strange to see creatures of such bignes stirre themselues with such variety of Motions, and yet nothing from without to lift them. The skillfullest Artificers in the world, though they can make strange and curious formes of things, yet they cannot make them stirre, or liue, or see, &c. When they made Gods of Pictures, yet they could not make them moue or liue, &c.