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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.
Thus of the Testimony Divine.
Thus of the Testimony Diuine.
The Humane Testimony, was the Testimony of the Roman Centurion, and the Soldiers with him, who feared and glorified God, and said, Of a truth this was the Son of God: and the multitude that came to the execution, beholding the things that were done, smote their breasts and returned, Matth. 27. 54. Mark. 15. 19. Luke 23. 47, 48. And this Testimony shows,
The Humane Testimony, was the Testimony of the Roman Centurion, and the Souldiers with him, who feared and glorified God, and said, Of a truth this was the Sonne of God: and the multitude that came to the execution, beholding the things that were done, smote their breasts and returned, Matth. 27. 54. Mark. 15. 19. Luke 23. 47, 48. And this Testimonie shewes,
1. The marvellous senselessness of the Priests and learned men, and great men of the Jews: that these men that were Pagans, and these poor Plebeians, should be so affected with fear and wonder, and give such an honourable testimony to the innocency and Divinity of Christ, when these great Pillars of the Church are so obstinately averse, and hostily minded, it shows that they were prodigiously sinful and hard hearted; and withal it shows what a plague a hard heart is, whereso ever it is found, though in learned or great men. Though God shake the earth, tear the Rocks, open the graves, and though he make strangers to confess his glory, yet they are the same men still.