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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.
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. 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.
2. Among the faiths that are found only in the Church, it is not the Symbolical faith, that hath nothing in it, but an outward 1avouching or professing of the true Religion.
2. Among the faithes that are found onely in the Church, it is not the Symbolicall faith, that hath nothing in it, but an outward 1auouching or professing of the true Religion.
- 12. Symbolica.