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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.
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.
7. The soul doth excel in quickness of motion & working: other creatures are swift, some in running, some in flying, but what can be among them comparable to the soul, which can in thought in an instant survey the ends of the Earth.
7. The soule doth excell in quicknesse of motion & working: other creatures are swift, some in running, some in flying, but what can be among them comparable to the soule, which can in thought in an instant suruey the ends of the Earth.
In these and many other things, the soul of man doth wonderfully excel, being set in the body of a man, as it were the God of the body, as a little God in the little world: as JEHOVAH is the great God in the great world