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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.
But on the other side, if men be workers of iniquity, and will not repent, and be such as love not the Lord Jesus, and can spend days, weeks, months and years without Christ in the world, he will not remember them: He cannot think of them in heaven, if they forget him on earth: Yea if they had been acquainted with Christ on earth, and eaten and drunken with him, and been of in his company, as Matth. 7. 22. yea if they had died with him at the same time, and the same kind of death (which was the case of the other Thief) when Christ shall come from heaven again, he will let them understand, that he did not remember any such ⟨p. 411⟩thing, he knew them not, all such naked relations vanish out of his mind; if they had repented of their sins, he would never have forgotten them. The answer of our Saviour is, Verily I say unto thee, this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise: In which answer we may observe divers things concerning prayer, as also divers things concerning heaven.
But on the other side, if men be workers of iniquitie, and will not repent, and be such as loue not the Lord Iesus, and can spend daies, weekes, months and yeares without Christ in the world, he will not remember them: He cannot think of them in heauen, if they forget him on earth: Yea if they had beene acquainted with Christ on earth, and eaten and drunken with him, and beene of in his company, as Matth. 7. 22. yea if they had died with him at the same time, and the same kinde of death (which was the case of the other Theefe) when Christ shall come from heauen againe, he will let them vnderstand, that hee did not remember any such ⟨p. 411⟩thing, he knew them not, all such naked relations vanish out of his minde; if they had repented of their sinnes, he would neuer haue forgotten them. The answer of our Sauiour is, Verily I say vnto thee, this day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise: In which answer we may obserue diuers things concerning prayer, as also diuers things concerning heauen.