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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
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, Pilate though moved to it, would not alter a letter of the Title. Which should teach us, that no adversary power in the world can hinder the kingdom, or salvation by Jesus: and that God will not suffer us to lose a jot of our right in Christ: and withal such Christians as can suffer Papists, or Sectaries, or Arminians, to alter the records of their faith, and put out and deface one Article after another, these Christians are not true Christians, and in some respect worse to Jesus than this Heathen man was.
Lastly, Pilate though moued to it, would not alter a letter of the Title. Which should teach vs, that no aduersarie power in the world can hinder the kingdome, or saluation by Iesus: and that God will not suffer vs to lose a iote of our right in Christ: and withall such Christians as can suffer Papists, or Sectaries, or Arminians, to alter the records of their faith, and put out and deface one Article after another, these Christians are not true Christians, and in some respect worse to Iesus than this Heathen man was.
Thus of the first testimony given to our Saviour upon the Cross.
Thus of the first testimonie giuen to our Sauiour vpon the Crosse.
The second testimony was given by the darkness that fell out from the sixth hour to the ninth. About this darkness two things are to be inquired after: First, the manner of it, and then what it might signify.
The second testimonie was giuen by the darknesse that fell out from the sixth houre to the ninth. About this darknesse two things are to be inquired after: First, the manner of it, and then what it might signifie.