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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 4 › Crucified.THE CREEDE. › Article 4 › Crucified.
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3. Public miseries upon the Church and State where we live are to bewailed. And out of verse 29. and 30. we may observe these things.
3. Publike miseries vpon the Church and State where we liue are to bewailed. And out of verse 29. and 30. we may obserue these things.
1. That strange punishments shall be to the workers of ⟨p. 386⟩iniquity: Notorious offenders shall be followed with notable judgements. Though God may spare for a time, yet there days are coming upon them, Eccles. 8. 12. Job 31. 3.
1. That strange punishments shall be to the workers of ⟨p. 386⟩iniquitie: Notorious offenders shall be followed with notable iudgements. Though God may spare for a time, yet there daies are comming vpon them, Eccles. 8. 12. Iob 31. 3.
2. Wicked men are monstrous impatient when God visits them for their sins. They bless the barren and wish to die. Judgements when they come from God have such a face of terror, and a guilty conscience is so outrageous, and besides when outward things are taken from the wicked, they are utterly undone in their own sense: and if they be no better able to bear temporal judgements, what will they do when they come to suffer eternal torments? And here is implied, that a Christian that can stand in the evil day undaunted, is an excellent creature, one of a thousand: if godliness did never appear to be of great worth, yet in the evil day it is most remarkable, for that it works upon godly persons.