A69028:1575

The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 3 › Which was conceived of the holy Ghost.THE CREEDE. › Article 3 › Which was conceiued of the holy Ghost.

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For the first, God being the chief good, it seemed good to him to communicate himself to the creature, & that he hath done three ways: First, by communicating nature to the creature, that highest being, granting nature & being with Nature, with great diversities of proprieties in that being. 2. By communicating grace to the creature, which is the prerogative of certain creatures that by Gods gift having poured out upon them a similitude & likeness of God himself, whether on Earth or in Heaven. Now the third way is above the former to be adored and admired for ever, and that is a way by which God doth not give any created gifts either of nature or grace, but he that is the Creator and Lord of glory, doth give himself to the creature, to make one person with the creature. The first way God is communicated to all creatures, the second way to the reasonable creature, the third way to Christ man. And yet observe and wonder, for God in Christ hath communicated himself to all creatures; for in as much as the nature of man comprehends in an Epitome, or by way of repetition, the substance of all that is in all other creatures, and therefore is called a little world: when God assumes the Nature of man into personal union with himself, he doth after a sort exalt every creature, and reduce it to himself.

For the first, God being the chiefe good, it seemed good to him to communicate himselfe to the creature, & that he hath done three waies: First, by communicating nature to the creature, that highest being, granting nature & being with Nature, with great diuersities of proprieties in that being. 2. By communicating grace to the creature, which is the prerogatiue of certaine creatures that by Gods gift hauing powred out vpon them a similitude & likenesse of God himselfe, whether on Earth or in Heauen. Now the third way is aboue the former to be adored and admired for euer, and that is a way by which God doth not giue any created gifts either of nature or grace, but he that is the Creator and Lord of glory, doth giue himselfe to the creature, to make one person with the creature. The first way God is communicated to all creatures, the second way to the reasonable creature, the third way to Christ man. And yet obserue and wonder, for God in Christ hath communicated himselfe to all creatures; for in as much as the nature of man comprehends in an Epitome, or by way of repetition, the substance of all that is in all other creatures, and therefore is called a little world: when God assumes the Nature of man into personall vnion with himselfe, hee doth after a sort exalt euery creature, and reduce it to himselfe.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622

Place

London

Printer

G.M.

Bookseller

Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith

Year

1626

Size

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p.

Words

212,467

Catalogue

STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

Text

EEBO-TCP A69028

Passages

2,700

Sections

Title page

The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Ob. Then it seems the whole divine Essence was conceived, for the whole divine Essence was in the second Person in the Trinity.

Ob. Then it seemes the whole diuine Essence was conceiued, for the whole diuine Essence was in the second Person in the Trinity.

Ob. If he were conceived of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost ¹was his Father: and the rather, because in the Original the proposition imports, that this Conception was not only by him, but of him.

Ob. If he were conceiued of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost ¹was his Father: and the rather, because in the Originall the proposition imports, that this Conception was not onely by him, but of him.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Ob. Then it seems the whole divine Essence was conceived, for the whole divine Essence was in the second Person in the Trinity.

Ob. Then it seemes the whole diuine Essence was conceiued, for the whole diuine Essence was in the second Person in the Trinity.

Ob. If he were conceived of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost 1was his Father: and the rather, because in the Original the proposition imports, that this Conception was not only by him, but of him.

Ob. If he were conceiued of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost 1was his Father: and the rather, because in the Originall the proposition imports, that this Conception was not onely by him, but of him.

Transcription key

Ob. If he were conceived of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost ¹was his Father: and the rather, because in the Original the proposition imports, that this Conception was not only by him, but of him.

Ob. If he were conceiued of the holy Ghost, then the holy Ghost ¹was his Father: and the rather, because in the Originall the proposition imports, that this Conception was not onely by him, but of him.