A69028:1725
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.
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.
6. What end this Traitor had: viz. He died miserably, liued to see Christ suffer so much, as filled his conscience with cruell torments, and afterwards hanged himselfe, so desperately, that he burst afunder in the middest, and all his bowels gushed out, as you may reade in the Gospell, and the Acts, Matth. 27. 3, 4, 5. Act. 1. 18.
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1. For Information, and so two things may be noted: First, that Ministers if they be corrupt, and lye in the practise of any gross sin, prove very devils incarnate; Judas for this cause is called a Devil, John 6. 70. Nothing is more loathsome to God than a wicked Minister; and no men prove more vile, and impudent, and senseless than they, if they make not conscience of their ways. If Salt be unsavoury, where with shall it be salted? Seldom do we read or hear of the conversion of these men. Again, if God forsake a man in his just judgement, we see how impossible it is for a man to get out of the snare of sin. Judas, after Covetousness had infected him, was still an Apostle, had excellent gifts of preaching and working miracles, enjoyed the benefit of the daily doctrine & holy example of our Saviour, saw his Miracles, was entertained into his familiar acquaintance, and had manifest warning given,