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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 › Dead.THE CREEDE. › Article 4 › Dead.
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There is yet one thing more to be thought on about this Question, and that is, that the Humanity, that is, the soul and flesh of Christ did in death, and after death remain in the Person of the Son of God firmly united: Though the Soul was disunited from the Body, yet neither Body nor Soul were dis-united from the Person of the Son of God. The parts of the Humane Nature were divided in death one from another, so as one was on earth, and the other in heaven, but yet both of them remained and subsisted in the Divine Nature; else if in death there had been a new manner of subsisting, Christ had had two Persons as well as two Natures, which is Heresy to believe.
There is yet one thing more to be thought on about this Question, and that is, that the Humanitie, that is, the soule and flesh of Christ did in death, and after death remaine in the Person of the Sonne of God firmely vnited: Though the Soule was disvnited from the Body, yet neither Body nor Soule were dis-vnited from the Person of the Sonne of God. The parts of the Humane Nature were diuided in death one from another, so as one was on earth, and the other in heauen, but yet both of them remained and subsisted in the Diuine Nature; else if in death there had beene a new manner of subsisting, Christ had had two Persons as well as two Natures, which is Heresie to beleeue.
Thus of the first Question.
For the second, we shall find in the Story of the Evangelists, that the chief Witnesses of Christs death were women, that followed Christ from Galilee, and ministered to him, by name Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Joses, and Salome, and the mother of Z•bedees children: These a far off beheld what was done. Of all the Apostles and seventy Disciples here is not one, but only John the Evangelist, who was by the Cross with the Virgin Mary.