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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.
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1. The overshadowing shows that we must not curiously pry into the glorious manner of his conception: we must believe it was so, but not search how it was so.
1. The ouershadowing shewes that we must not curiously prie into the glorious manner of his conception: wee must beleeue it was so, but not search how it was so.
2. The knowledge of this Article, may prepare us to believe the next, (viz.) that Christ was borne of a Virgin: for seeing he ⟨p. 269⟩was conceived by the Holy Ghost, it cannot be hard that he should be borne of a Virgin, for he that wrought this conception is he that worketh all things, and nothing is impossible to him.
2. The knowledge of this Article, may prepare vs to beleeue the next, (viz.) that Christ was borne of a Virgin: for seeing hee ⟨p. 269⟩was conceiued by the Holy Ghost, it cannot bee hard that hee should bee borne of a Virgin, for hee that wrought this conception is hee that worketh all things, and nothing is impossible to him.