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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
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.
Hitherto of the Titles of the Redeemer. His Incarnation follows, wherein Faith beholds and wonders at two things, first, his Conception by the holy Ghost, and secondly, his Birth of a Virgin. But before I open these two points, it is needful to consider of his Incarnation in the general, and so:
HItherto of the Titles of the Redeemer. His Incarnation followes, wherein Faith beholds and wonders at two things, first, his Conception by the holy Ghost, and secondly, his Birth of a Virgin. But before I open these two points, it is needfull to consider of his Incarnation in the generall, and so:
1. What the Incarnation of Christ is. 2. The proofs that he was Incarnate. 3. Who was Incarnate. ⟨p. 248⟩4. What was assumed in his Incarnation. 5. The time when he was Incarnate. 6. Why he was Incarnate. 7. How he was Incarnate. 8. The effects or consequents of his Incarnation.
1. What the Incarnation of Christ is. 2. The proofes that he was Incarnate. 3. Who was Incarnate. ⟨p. 248⟩4. What was assumed in his Incarnation. 5. The time when he was Incarnate. 6. Why he was Incarnate. 7. How he was Incarnate. 8. The effects or consequents of his Incarnation.
1. The Incarnation of Christ, is a part of his abasement, whereby the Son of God, after a most perfect manner, assumed the Nature of man into personal union with his divine Nature. I call it a part of his abasement, because it was a great Humiliation for God to become man, and so it may be reckoned with his Passion following, save that in the same nature of Man he was afterwards exalted.