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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.
5. In respect of his servants that were martyred. So Christ was slain when Abel was slain.
5. In respect of his seruants that were martyred. So Christ was slaine when Abel was slaine.
6. In respect of the faith of the godly: for it is the property of faith to make things to come to be present, as giving a substance or person to things hoped for, and a present demonstration of things which yet are not seen, Heb. 11. 1.
6. In respect of the faith of the godly: for it is the propertie of faith to make things to come to be present, as giuing a substance or person to things hoped for, and a present demonstrarion of things which yet are not seene, Heb. 11. 1.
7. In respect of sin, which was the cause of his death, which was committed by the Elect, and was the cause of his death. Their sin was his death, when they began to sin, death was in the pot for Christ, and so their sin was remitted them, only for the respect of that satisfaction was to be made in the sacrifice of Christ, Rom. 3. 21. to 27.
7. In respect of sinne, which was the cause of his death, which was committed by the Elect, and was the cause of his death. Their sinne was his death, when they began to sinne, death was in the pot for Christ, and so their sinne was remitted them, only for the respect of that satisfaction was to be made in the sacrifice of Christ,