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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.
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.
3 The strange prouision God hath furnished them withall in respect of cloathing, defence, and food: No beast but hee comes into the world clothed, and hath by nature Armes to defend himselfe; either hornes or teeth, or hoofes, or pawes, or the like; and besides, wee see that the young ones of euery kinde doe presently moue themselues to their food, and can make some shift for themselues to liue. Man in these things is inferiour to the beasts, for he comes into the world, naked, infirme, crying, and hath no vse of his limbs to helpe himselfe, all bloudy, as if hee had newly escaped the hands of Theeues; and besides, he is bound in swadling bands, as if he were a Captiue.
In the Scriptures these things are charged upon us to take notice of concerning the beasts.
In the Scriptures these things are charged vpon vs to take notice of concerning the beasts.
1 Their Original, which they have from God: for they were made by the Word of the Lord, as the Heavens and the Earth were: for God commanded the Earth to bring forth the living creature after his kind, Cattle and creeping things, and the beast of the Earth after his kind. It was God that made the Beast of the Earth after his kind, and Cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,