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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. That we being delivered from that eternal scorn and contempt which was due to us, might in this life enjoy the comfort of a good name, and in the life to come eternal glory before God and his Angels: Christs ignominy did merit and procure our honour.
2. That wee being deliuered from that eternall scorne and contempt which was due to vs, might in this life inioy the comfort of a good name, and in the life to come eternall glory before God and his Angels: Christs ignominie did merit and procure our honour.
3. That by his example we might be comforted, and by his silence and patience learn to despise the shame and scorns of sinful men, and not render reviling for reviling, Heb. 12. 3.
3. That by his example wee might be comforted, and by his silence and patience learne to despise the shame and scornes of sinfull men, and not render reuiling for reuiling, Heb. 12. 3.
It may perhaps run in mens minds to wish that our Saviour would have done as they said, seeing they promise to believe in him, if he could save himself from the Cross. But let men consider: first, that our Redemption had been hindered, if he had not died on the Cross, and besides being brought to that hour, as our surety, he could not come down till he had satisfied Gods justice: and further, he had denied to work Miracles in his life time, when they and Herod desired him to do it, because they were an adulterous generation, and cast off of God, who was now loth to have them convert, Isaiah 6. 10. Neither would they have repented though they had had their desire; and if Miracles would have satisfied them, he had done store of them in his life time, and in that kind, he had saved himself from the hands of a multitude that intended to kill him, as when they took up stones in the Temple to stone him; and it was more that he did, to rise from the dead, then to come down from the Cross; and yet they did not believe him. Again, in these reproaches we may observe, that wicked men do hate godly men, for the very goodness that is in them, and the true glory God hath stamped upon them, and the good they do: They do not upbraid Christ for any evil, no not for the evils they accused him of before, for they themselves knew he was innocent, but for the good he had done in saving others, and for his trust in God, and for his prayers to God.