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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
THE CREED. › Article 1 › I Believe.THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue.
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.
The effects wrought by Faith have bin either extraordinary in some men, or ordinary in every true believer. It hath done extraordinary things in some men: as it hath carried some men to Heaven alive without dying: as Enoch & Elijah, Heb. 11. 5. Some men that had it could have removed mountains, and did miraculously heal diseases, and raise dead men: but because these effects are ceased, I pass from them, and consider only of the ordinary effects such as are wrought by it in every believer: and these I call ordinary effects, not to abase their singular glory but to distinguish them from the former effects.
The effects wrought by Faith haue bin either extraordinary in some men, or ordinary in euery true beleeuer. It hath done extraordinary things in some men: as it hath carried some men to Heauen aliue without dying: as Henoch & Elias, Heb. 11. 5. Some men that had it could haue remoued mountaines, and did miraculously heale diseases, and raise dead men: but because these effects are ceased, I passe from them, and consider onely of the ordinary effects such as are wrought by it in euery beleeuer: and these I call ordinary effects, not to abase their singular glory but to distinguish them from the former effects.
Great are the things which Faith worketh, either to the Christian himself, or to others.
Great are the things which Faith worketh, either to the Christian himselfe, or to others.
To himself it bringeth and procureth admirable things; for:
To himselfe it bringeth and procureth admirable things; for: