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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 God made the body of man in beauty and fairness, excelling all other visible creatures: for both his countenance is lifted up to Heaven, and the parts of his body are with more comeliness proportioned, and his colour is full of sweetness and loveliness: Thus it was with man in his Creation, and thus and much better it shall be with his body, when he shall shine as the Stars in the Firmament.
3 God made the body of man in beauty and fairenesse, excelling all other visible creatures: for both his countenance is lifted vp to Heauen, and the parts of his body are with more comlinesse proportioned, and his colour is full of sweetnesse and louelinesse: Thus it was with man in his Creation, and thus and much better it shall bee with his body, when hee shall shine as the Starres in the Firmament.
4 The body of man had at the first no disposition to weariness, or sickness, or death: which the bodies of all other living Creatures were subject to. This privilege mans body had not by nature but by the gift of GOD: GOD having infused into the body a soul, that did her work in the body perfectly, and allowing him such food as was most effectual for vegetation, and giving man skill and care to look to himself: and if the body in time would have declined, God would have prevented that by translating man to Heaven, without sickness and death.
4 The body of man had at the first no disposition to wearinesse, or sicknesse, or death: which the bodies of all other liuing Creatures were subiect to. This priuiledge mans body had not by nature but by the gift of GOD: GOD hauing infused into the body a soule, that did her worke in the body perfectly, and allowing him such foode as was most effectuall for vegetation, and giuing man skill and care to looke to himselfe: and if the body in time would haue declined, God would haue preuented that by tranflating man to Heauen, without sicknesse and death.