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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.
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, Gen. 1. 24, 25.
1 Their Originall, which they haue from God: for they were made by the Word of the Lord, as the Heauens and the Earth were: for God commanded the Earth to bring forth the liuing 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 kinde, and Cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kind, Gen. 1. 24, 25.
2 The end of their Creation, which was partly the illustration of the glory of God, as they are visible looking-glasses, to show the goodness, wisdom and power of GOD to man, and therefore man is charged to ask the beasts of the field, and they shall teach him, Job 12. 7, 8. and partly for the use of man, both for his body and soul: for his body, they were created to serve him for his clothing, food, and for the dispatch of his labours. And for his soul, they ⟨p. 191⟩serve not only to help his knowledge, every beast being a several book for him to read in, but also to reprove and instruct him, as will appear in the uses afterwards.
2 The end of their Creation, which was partly the illustration of the glory of God, as they are visible looking-glasses, to shew the goodnesse, wisdome and power of GOD to man, and therefore man is charged to aske the beasts of the field, and they shall teach him,