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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.THE CREEDE. › Article 2 › And in Iesus.
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.
2. The places that prove that he is indeed a Priest, Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 5. 10. & Chap. 7.
2. The places that proue that hee is indeed a Priest, Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 5. 10. & Chap. 7.
3. The difference between him and the Priests of the Law: for Christ is a Priest after the order of Melchizedek, Psal. 110. 4. they were Priests after the order of Levi: Their Priest-hood was Typical, his was Real, Heb. 10. 1. Theirs were instituted by the Law of the carnal commandment without an oath, his was instituted by the law of the spiritual commandment with an oath, Heb. 7. 16. 20. 21. their Priesthood was ordained in the Old Testament, where the Church was in her nonage in bondage, but his in the time of the New Testament, when the Church was grown to be of years and free, Heb. 7. 28. There was difference also in the Person of the Priests: for those Priests were of the Tribe of Levi, men, infirm, mortal, sinners, that needed sacrifice for themselves: but Christ was of the Tribe of Judah, infirm only in the days of his flesh, but without all sin both before and after his death, Heb. 5. 3. 7. & 7. 14. 28