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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.
7. Because the body and soul of a man is the Temple of the holy Ghost to dwell in: so it was with the first man, and so it is still in some men even in this world, 2. Cor. 6. 16. God dwells in man and walks in him.
7. Because the body and soule of a man is the Temple of the holy Ghost to dwell in: so it was with the first man, and so it is still in some men euen in this world, 2. Cor. 6. 16. God dwells in man and walkes in him.
8. Yea, God hath done that honour to the nature of man, that he hath not done to the nature of Angels, and that is, that he hath joined it inseparably to his divine nature, in the person of his Son Christ Jesus: so as man is now as near to God, ⟨p. 200⟩as the body is to the soul, Heb. 2. 16.
8. Yea, God hath done that honour to the nature of man, that he hath not done to the nature of Angels, and that is, that he hath ioyned it inseparably to his diuine nature, in the person of his Son Christ Iesus: so as man is now as neere to God, ⟨p. 200⟩as the body is to the soule, Heb. 2. 16.