A69028:1882
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. We should all fear the great power and wrath of God: we should be afraid to displease him: for he can find strange ways to make us suffer: If all the world were at firm peace with us, and all the Devils in Hell would be quiet, yet God can fight against our spirits with a very Army he can raise in our very dreams: Little do we ⟨p. 376⟩know how suddenly, and how easily, and yet how fearfully God can seize upon us either body or soul.
6. We should all feare the great power and wrath of God: we should be afraid to displease him: for hee can finde strange wayes to make vs suffer: If all the world were at firme peace with vs, and all the Deuils in Hell would be quiet, yet God can fight against our spirits with a very Armie he can raise in our very dreames: Little doe we ⟨p. 376⟩know how suddenly, and how easily, and yet how fearefully God can seaze vpon vs either body or soule.
7. Note that she saith I have suffered many things, and yet it was Pilate that offended: whence we may gather, that ill husbands may make all that belongs unto them suffer for their faults. They may be as a common plague to all that is about them, or comes of them: They sin, and their wives may suffer many things for their sakes, so may their children and their posterity.
7. Note that shee saith I haue suffered many things, and yet it was Pilate that offended: whence we may gather, that ill husbands may make all that belongs vnto them suffer for their faults. They may be as a common plague to all that is about them, or comes of them: They sinne, and their wiues may suffer many things for their sakes, so may their children and their posterity.