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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.
3. Nor is it contained in that faith called Historical, which hath 1nothing but the understanding and assent unto the word that it is true, but wants application and life.
3. Nor is it contained in that faith called Historicall, which hath 1nothing but the vnderstanding and assent vnto the word that it is true, but wants application and life.
- 13. Historica.
4. Nor is it that temporary faith, of which was entreated before: but is such a belief as contains in it all the six things 1before mentioned.
4. Nor is it that temporary faith, of which was intreated before: but is such a beliefe as containes in it all the six things 1before mentioned.
- 14. Temporaria.
5. Nor is it that faith they call a Moral faith, by which a man 1