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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 › His only Sonne.]THE CREEDE. › Article 2 › His onely Sonne.]
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. The Proofs that Jesus Christ is the Son of God: for to ⟨p. 236⟩believe God hath a Son is not enough, we must believe that Jesus Christ is that Son of God, Psal. 2. 7. compared with Heb. 1. 5. Joh. 10. 36. Mat. 16. 16. Rom. 1. 3. John 9. 35.
1. The Proofes that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God: for to ⟨p. 236⟩beleeue God hath a Sonne is not inough, we must beleeue that Iesus Christ is that Sonne of God, Psal. 2. 7. compared with Heb. 1. 5. Ioh. 10. 36. Mat. 16. 16. Rom. 1. 3. Iohn 9. 35.
2. What kind of Son Christ is to God; God hath many Sons, some by Grace, and one by Nature. The sorts of sons which God hath by Grace, see in the explication of the term Father, in the first Article of the Creed. But Christ is his natural Son, because God the Father did communicate to him his own nature, so as he is by nature the Son of God: he is the begotten Son of God, because he received his Fathers Nature by Generation. He is the first begotten Son of God, so called in Scripture, because he hath the right of the first-borne over his brethren, and was begotten before the world was: he is the only begotten Son of God, because by Generation God hath no other Sons but he.