A69028:1622
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 In particular, to women that conceive and bear children, especially if they be true Christians. The very remembrance of this, that the Saviour of the world was conceived and borne of a woman, should sweeten their fears and sorrows, about or after their conceptions, or in the birth.
1 In particular, to women that conceiue and beare children, especially if they be true Christians. The very remembrance of this, that the Sauiour of the world was conceiued and borne of a woman, should sweeten their feares and sorrowes, about or after their conceptions, or in the birth.
2 In general, it may comfort all the godly, to see in this conception a medicine for their original sin, and all the evils that cleave to their Nature: for as it was showed before, to this end he was conceived without sin, and sanctified in his Nature, that thereby he might justify us before God from the evils cleave to our natures.
2 In generall, it may comfort all the godly, to see in this conception a medicine for their originall sinne, and all the euils that cleaue to their Nature: for as it was shewed before, to this end he was conceiued without sinne, and sanctified in his Nature, that thereby he might iustifie vs before God from the euils cleaue to our natures.
And thus of the first part of his Incarnation, viz. his conception of the holy Ghost, his birth of the Virgin Mary follows: In which words of the Creed, the thing affirmed is the birth of Christ, the person by whom it is, is described by her condition, she was a Virgin, and by her name she was Mary, and her name is added to bring to our remembrance the Genealogy of Christ; who took flesh of her that was of the seed of David in a right Linage, that thereby the promises made to the Fathers might be accomplished.