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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.
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.
1. The Incarnation of Christ, is a part of his abasement, whereby the Sonne of God, after a most perfect manner, assumed the Nature of man into personall vnion with his diuine Nature. I call it a part of his abasement, because it was a great Humiliation for God to become man, and so it may bee reckoned with his Passion following, saue that in the same nature of Man hee was afterwards exalted.
2. Now that God became man, or Christ the Son of God was likewise true man, is proved by these and other express Scriptures, 1. Tim. 3. 16. Joh. 1. 14. Rom. 1. 3. 4. Rom. 9. 5. Gal. 4. 4, 5. Phil. 2. 6, 7.
2. Now that God became man, or Christ the Sonne of God was likewise true man, is proued by these and other expresse Scriptures, 1. Tim. 3. 16. Ioh. 1. 14.