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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 1 › I Believe.THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue.
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Sixthly, nor must that persuasion which ariseth from experience, and the fulfilling of things be taken for true faith, because faith lays hold upon things before the event also, Heb. 11. 1. Nor lastly, is faith and hope all one, for faith sees Christ exhibited, and present in the Word and Sacrament, Hope looks for him to be revealed from Heaven: Faith believes what God hath promised, and Hope waits for performance, faith is assured of eternal life, and Hope expects it to be revealed: Faith is the foundation of Hope, and Hope is the nurse of faith. Thus he must cast out things that are only like unto faith but are not faith.
Sixtly, nor must that perswasion which ariseth from experience, and the fulfilling of things be taken for true faith, because faith laies hold vpon things before the euent also, Heb. 11. 1. Nor lastly, is faith and hope all one, for faith sees Christ exhibited, and present in the Word and Sacrament, Hope lookes for him to be reuealed from Heauen: Faith beleeues what God hath promised, and Hope waites for performance, faith is assured of eternall life, and Hope expects it to be reuealed: Faith is the foundation of Hope, and Hope is the nurse of faith. Thus he must cast out things that are onely like vnto faith but are not faith.
3. When he hath thus cast out the contraries of faith, and finds himself free from them, and withal hath provided that he is not deceived with the things that have a likeness unto faith and are not, he must then in the third place, look to it that he take not a wrong faith for the right faith: for there be many kinds of faith, and one only that is the faith that will justify us before God: and so the right faith is not,
3. When he hath thus cast out the contraries of faith, and findes himselfe free from them, and withall hath prouided that he is not deceiued with the things that haue a likenesse vnto faith and are not, he must then in the third place, looke to it that he take not a wrong faith for the right faith: for there be many kindes of faith, and one onely that is the faith that will iustifie vs before God: and so the right faith is not,