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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.
3. If we ask who took the Nature of man, we must answer as it is in the Creed, the Son of God, he that was Gods natural Son, and very God himself, the second Person in Trinity, as also the former proofs show. It was this Son by whom man was created at first, Colos. 1. 16. and therefore was the fittest to restore unto man what he had lost, by making him again. And it was most comely, that he that was the natural Son of God, by being made the Son of man should make us sons of God, and give us the right of Adopted sons, Joh. 1. 12. and the second person in the Trinity alone is called the Image of the Father, Colos. 1. 15. Heb. 1. 3. and therefore is most fit to restore in us the Image of God which we had lost, and defaced by our sins.
3. If we aske who tooke the Nature of man, we must answer as it is in the Creed, the Sonne of God, hee that was Gods naturall Sonne, and very God himselfe, the second Person in Trinity, as also the former proofes shew. It was this Son by whom man was created at first, Colos. 1. 16. and therefore was the fittest to restore vnto man what he had lost, by making him againe. And it was most comely, that he that was the naturall Sonne of God, by being made the Sonne of man should make vs sonnes of God, and giue vs the right of Adopted sonnes, Ioh. 1. 12. and the second person in the Trinity alone is called the Image of the Father, Colos. 1. 15. Heb. 1. 3. and therefore is most fit to restore in vs the Image of God which we had lost, and defaced by our sinnes.