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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.
5. Language is an admirable endowment of the body of man only, who is able to express himself with infinite variety and distinctions of sound whence flows all conversation, and delightful or profitable society.
5. Language is an admirable indowment of the body of man onely, who is able to expresse himselfe with infinite variety and distinctions of sound whence flowes all conuersation, and delightfull or profitable society.
But the excellency of Gods power and glory in the Creation of mans soul who can perfectly recount? God hath done wonderfully for man in respect of his soul above all other visible creatures: for,
But the excellencie of Gods power and glory in the Creation of mans soule who can perfectly recount? God hath done wonderfully for man in respect of his soule aboue all other visible creatures: for,
1. The soul was breathed into the body of man by God 1himself, by special inspiration and singular Creation, Gen. 2. and never was a soul in the body of man, but was made of God by his special power: our bodies may have earthly fathers, but our spirits have no Father but God, Heb. 12. It is God only that creates and frames the spirit of man within him, Zechariah 12. 1. and so man is the generation of God,