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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.]
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First, we should make conscience of it to receive this doctrine with our whole hearts, with all life of affections: for hereby we shall improve, we are Christians and not Jews. They could believe Jesus was a man, but could not endure it, that he should call himself the Son of God, John 10. and the devil hath mightily also laboured to make the Divinity of Christ suspected. As when he came into the world, by making men think of a worldly kingdom, then stirring up the Priests and Pharisees to seek to kill him as a blasphemer, in saying he was the Son of God. And in the beginning of the Christian Churches, he raised up pernicious Heretics to deny his Divinity, and at this day, hath raised many in other countries, that write and teach most dangerously in this point. And therefore we must hold fast this Truth against all the power of hell. This confession is the Rock upon which the Christian Church is built, Mat. 16. 16. 17. If we acknowledge the Son, we have the Father, 1. Joh. 2. 23.
First, we should make conscience of it to receiue this doctrine with our whole hearts, with all life of affections: for hereby wee shall improue, wee are Christians and not Iewes. They could beleeue Iesus was a man, but could not indure it, that he should call himselfe the Sonne of God, Iohn 10. and the diuell hath mightily also laboured to make the Diuinity of Christ suspected. As when he came into the world, by making men think of a worldly kingdome, then stirring vp the Priests and Pharisees to seeke to kill him as a blasphemer, in saying he was the Sonne of God. And in the beginning of the Christian Churches, he raised vp pernitious Heretickes to denie his Diuinity, and at this day, hath raised many in other countries, that write and teach most dangerously in this point. And therefore we must hold fast this Truth against all the power of hell. This confession is the Rocke vpon which the Christian Church is built, Mat. 16. 16. 17. If we acknowledge the Son, we haue the Father, 1. Ioh. 2. 23.