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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.
Again, a mans estate by nature hath wonderful need of mending and alteration, if we consider the misery to which it is exposed in respect of punishment, for we have all lost Paradise. 2. And all the creatures about us are worse then they were at first for our sakes, Rom. 8. 20. 3. God is horribly wroth with all of us, Joh. 3. 36. 4. The glory of our understandings is lost, we are very beasts, and have not the understandings of men in us, Prou. 30. 2. 5. The Devil doth in a manner what he will with us, Ephes. 2. 2. 2 Tim. 2. 26. 6. Our selves are senseless and dead, Ephes. 2. 1. The life of God is a most strange thing to us, Ephes. 4. 18. 7. Armies and changes of sorrows assault us in our bodies and estates, Deut. 28. 8. Good things are restrained from us, even blessings of all sorts, Jerem. 5. 25. 9. And the good things we have, they do not prosper with us, or they do us hurt, Mal. 2. 2. Jer. 12. 13. 10. Horrible fears either of death or shame, or judgement of men, or God, do many times cruelly torment us, Isaiah 33. 14 & 65. 13, 14. Heb. 2. 15. Besides, all that which we are in danger of: for strange punishments may be to the workers of iniquity in this life, Job 31. 3. and we may dye miserably, and who can recount the terror of the last Judgement, and the violent fire may devour us in Hell for ever,