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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.
5. Why was it necessary Christ should be betrayed by Judas? Answ. He suffered this betraying: First, that the Scripture might be fulfilled that had fore told this Treason, Joh. 13. 18. Secondly, in abiding this Treason, he paid for our perfidiousness and ingratitude in Adam; our perfidiousness in betraying the Truth to the Devil; and our ingratitude, that had received of God so many benefits by Creation, and yet so evil rewarded him: and he was betrayed with a kiss, that he might satisfy for us, that in Adam had admitted the flattery of the Serpent, when he told us we should be like God; yea that had as it were flattered the Serpent, obeying him rather than God.
5. Why was it necessary Christ should be betrayd by Iudas? Answ. He suffered this betraying: First, that the Scripture might be fulfilled that had fore told this Treason, Ioh. 13. 18. Secondly, in abiding this Treason, hee paid for our perfidiousnesse and ingratitude in Adam; our perfidiousnesse in betraying the Truth to the Deuill; and our ingratitude, that had receiued of God so many benefits by Creation, and yet so euill rewarded him: and hee was betrayed with a kisse, that hee might satisfie for vs, that in Adam had admitted the flattery of the Serpent, when hee told vs wee should be like God; yea that had as it were flattered the Serpent, obeying him rather than God.
6. What end this Traitor had: viz. He died miserably, lived to see Christ suffer so much, as filled his conscience with cruel torments, and afterwards hanged himself, so desperately, that he burst asunder in the middest, and all his bowels gushed out, as you may read in the Gospel, and the Acts, Matth. 27. 3, 4, 5. Act. 1. 18.