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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.
Lastly, unto all the former Consolations, this may be added, that the faith of the true believer shall not fail, but continue to the end. The seed of faith will abide in him, 1 John 3. 9. Christ hath prayed that faith may not fail, Luke 22. 23. Ephes. 1. 13. 14. 2 Thes. 1. 11. Phil. 1. 6. Rom. 11. 29. Thus of the Consolations.
Lastly, vnto all the former Consolations, this may be added, that the faith of the true beleeuer shall not faile, but continue to the end. The seede of faith will abide in him, 1 Iohn 3. 9. Christ hath prayed that faith may not faile, Luke 22. 23. Ephes. 1. 13. 14. 2 Thes. 1. 11. Phil. 1. 6. Rom. 11. 29. Thus of the Consolations.
As the doctrine of faith is exceeding comfortable unto the 1true believer: so it imports extreme terror and misery unto all such as are destitute of true faith: for the unbeliever is no Christian; for the Christians were called believers, to show that then a man was a true Christian, when he was a true believer: By the right belief of these Articles men hold their Christendom. Besides, till faith come into a mans heart he is shut up under the arrests of the Law, and lieth in a spiritual prison, charged with all the breaches of Gods Law, which are debts impossible for him to pay,