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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. 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, Acts 17.
1. The soule was breathed into the body of man by God 1himself, by speciall inspiration and singular Creation, Gen. 2. and neuer was a soule in the body of man, but was made of God by his speciall power: our bodies may haue earthly fathers, but our spirits haue no Father but God, Heb. 12. It is God onely that creates and frames the spirit of man within him, Zacharie 12. 1. and so man is the generation of God, Acts 17.
- 1A soul can no more beget a soul, then an Angel can beget an Angel.A soule can no more beget a soule, then an Angel can beget an Angel.