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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. 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.
6. As it is wonderful for the things it worketh upon the body, so it is admirable for the work it can do, when the body lieth a sleep and stirs not. The soul then resembles God in the Creation. It creates worlds of shapes within it self with strange furniture and variety, which inward Creation of infinite frames of things would be like this world which God made, but that the soul cannot give them continuance, life, &c. It was a great gift of God to give the soul power to make these things within.
6. As it is wonderfull for the things it worketh vpon the body, so it is admirable for the worke it can doe, when the body lyeth a sleepe and stirres not. The soule then resembles God in the Creation. It creates worlds of shapes within it selfe with strange furniture and variety, which inward Creation of infinite frames of things would be like this world which God made, but that the soule cannot giue them continuance, life, &c. It was a great gift of God to giue the soule power to make these things within.