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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 soul of man was made in the Image of God: in other things the footsteps of God do appear, but in man only (in this visible world) did the similitude of God appear, Gen. 1. 26. Man was not made like the Sun in the firmament, or like some Angel in Heaven, but like God himself, and so especially in his soul: for the soul of man is a spirit, as God is himself, and it is invisible, and immaterial like God: and as in the substance of the soul, we resemble God, so in certain qualities or virtues printed in the soul which resemble the Attributes of God, such as are goodness, ⟨p. 198⟩love knowledge, mercy, Justice, patience, and the like, Ephes. 4 Colos. 3. 10. The nature of no creature being capable of virtue, or the laws of virtuous living, but only man.
3. The soule of man was made in the Image of God: in other things the footsteps of God doe appeare, but in man onely (in this visible world) did the similitude of God appeare, Gen. 1. 26. Man was not made like the Sun in the firmament, or like some Angell in Heauen, but like God himselfe, and so especially in his soule: for the soule of man is a spirit, as God is himselfe, and it is inuisible, and immateriall like God: and as in the substance of the soule, we resemble God, so in certaine qualities or vertues printed in the soule which resemble the Attributes of God, such as are goodnesse, ⟨p. 198⟩loue knowledge, mercy, Iustice, patience, and the like, Ephes. 4 Colos. 3. 10. The nature of no creature being capable of vertue, or the lawes of vertuous liuing, but onely man.