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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
THE CREED. › Article 2 › And in Jesus Christ.THE CREEDE. › Article 2 › And in Iesus Christ.
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.
1. Is guilty of Adams sin, Rom. 5. 12.
1. Is guilty of Adams sinne, Rom. 5. 12.
2. He is possessed by original sin, by which he is two ways vilely plagued; for he hath lost all that righteousness and integrity of nature man had in the Creation: which he may feel, by his want of fervent love to God, awful fear of God, confident trust in God, affectionate delight in God, shining knowledge of God, &c. and so by his strange deficiencies in his disposition toward his neighbour: and besides, he is poisoned and infected with corruption in his nature, which is the more grievous because all men are infected, Rom. 5. 12. all are so from the womb, Psal. 51. and this infection is in the whole nature of man, which he may feel, by the very disorder of his natural appetite to food, sleep, procreation, & by the corruption of his very senses, his eyes ready to wander after vanity, Psal. 119. if they be not guarded and watched, Job 31. 1. and so his taste and other senses: & in his understanding he may feel a strange kind of power of darkness, and disability to think of any good things, & proneness to a world of vanities and evil, & in his affections he may daily perceive a very vassalage to evil concupiscence, giving laws of wickedness to his members, Rom. 7.
2. He is possessed by originall sinne, by which hee is two waies vilely plagued; for he hath lost all that righteousnesse and integrity of nature man had in the Creation: which he may feele, by his want of seruent loue to God, awfull feare of God, confident trust in God, affectionate delight in God, shining knowledge of God, &c. and so by his strange deficiencies in his disposition toward his neighbour: and besides, he is poysoned and infected with corruption in his nature, which is the more grieuous because all men are infected,