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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. 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.
3 The strange provision God hath furnished them withal in respect of clothing, defence, and food: No beast but he comes into the world clothed, and hath by nature Arms to defend himself; either horns or teeth, or hoofs, or paws, or the like; and besides, we see that the young ones of every kind do presently move themselves to their food, and can make some shift for themselves to live. Man in these things is inferior to the beasts, for he comes into the world, naked, infirm, crying, and hath no use of his limbs to help himself, all bloody, as if he had newly escaped the hands of Thieves; and besides, he is bound in swaddling bands, as if he were a Captive.