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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.
Lastly, 'tis not unprofitable to consider, how the being of the body of Christ, differs from other respects of the being of the same body. The body of Christ is in Heaven Locally, it is in the Word substantially, it is in the Sacrament mystically, It is in the hearts of every believer spiritually, and was in the womb of the Virgin by a natural and circumscriptible manner of presence.
Lastly, 'tis not vnprofitable to consider, how the being of the body of Christ, differs from other respects of the being of the same body. The body of Christ is in Heauen Locally, it is in the Word substantially, it is in the Sacrament mystically, It is in the hearts of euery beleeuer spiritually, and was in the wombe of the Virgin by a naturall and circumscriptible manner of presence.
The uses follow: and so,
The vses follow: and so,
1 They are confuted that say, He took not his Body of the Virgin, but brought it from Heaven. They object, that in John 3. 13. it is said, that Christ descended from Heaven, and that verse 23. and 31. He said, he was from above, and that 1 Cor. 15. 47. He is said to be the Lord from Heaven. Answ. None of these places say, That he brought his body from Heaven. The words are true of the person of Christ, that he descended from Heaven when he abased himself to take upon him the form of a servant: and if they were true of his humane nature, yet could signify no more but that he was conceived after a heavenly manner, and not by carnal generation, by the working of the Holy Ghost who came down from Heaven upon the Virgin. If they reply it must needs be true, that he descended in the same nature he ascended, as the Apostle saith,