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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.
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.
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.
2. Wicked men are monstrous impatient when God visits them for their sinnes. They blesse the barren and wish to die. Iudgements when they come from God haue such a face of terror, and a guilty conscience is so outragious, and besides when outward things are taken from the wicked, they are vtterly vndone in their owne sense: and if they be no better able to beare temporall iudgements, what will they doe when they come to suffer eternall torments? And here is implied, that a Christian that can stand in the euill day vndaunted, is an excellent creature, one of a thousand: if godlinesse did neuer appeare to be of great worth, yet in the euill day it is most remarkable, for that it works vpon godly persons.
3. To say, It is good to be barren, or to be dead, only for temporal crosses, is the saying not of God, nor any godly, but of wicked men only.
3. To say, It is good to be barren, or to be dead, only for temporall crosses, is the saying not of God, nor any godly, but of wicked men only.