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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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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,
1. That political faith, which is a virtue employed about humane 1contracts and societies: to believe aright, is more ⟨p. 30⟩then to be faithful in promises, or to be trusty in employments, or to be just in our dealings, or to keep our words to men.
1. That politicall faith, which is a vertue imployed about humane 1contracts and societies: to beleeue aright, is more ⟨p. 30⟩then to bee faithfull in promises, or to bee trustie in imployments, or to bee iust in our dealings, or to keepe our words to men.
- 11. Fides politica.