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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.
4. The soul is immortal: it is a thing within us, that will never be at an end, when worlds of other things be dissolved round about it: and this is an unspeakable endowment, if we could seriously think of it, that God should let us last as long as himself, and all other living things die and expire, and come to nothing. A mans soul will be alive after a thousand times ten thousand years: All the devils in Hell, or Tyrants on earth, cannot kill our soul.
4. The soule is immortall: it is a thing within vs, that will neuer be at an end, when worlds of other things bee dissolued round about it: and this is an vnspeakeable indowment, if we could seriously thinke of it, that God should let vs last as long as himselfe, and all other liuing things die and expire, and come to nothing. A mans soule will bee aliue after a thousand times tenne thousand yeeres: All the diuells in Hell, or Tyrants on earth, cannot kill our soule.
5. The soul of a man works within strange things even in his very body. It carries the body about, being a thing without body, it self and gives divers gifts to divers parts of the body; It works sight in the eyes, hearing in the ears, feeling in all the body, tasting in the Palate, smelling in the Nostrils, breathing in the Lungs, concoction in the Stomach, operation in the hands, ambulation in the feet, and motion in the whole body: yea, it so works by the senses of the body, that it takes in by them all other things to it self in the species of them.
5. The soule of a man workes within strange things euen in his very body. It carries the body about, being a thing without body, it selfe and giues diuers gifts to diuers parts of the body; It workes sight in the eyes, hearing in the eares, feeling in all the body, tasting in the Pallate, smelling in the Nostrills, breathing in the Lungs, concoction in the Stomach, operation in the hands, ambulation in the feete, and motion in the whole bodie: yea, it so workes by the senses of the body, that it takes in by them all other things to it selfe in the species of them.