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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 › Buried.THE CREEDE. › Article 4 › Buried.
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.
7. That we might learn from thence to give honour to the ⟨p. 435⟩body of Christians, in providing honest and decent burial for them, such as might answer the hope we have of our Resurrection. Mens bodies shall rise, and to signify so much, we should lay them in the grave as in a safe place to keep them till the Resurrection.
7. That we might learne from thence to giue honour to the ⟨p. 435⟩body of Christians, in prouiding honest and decent buriall for them, such as might answer the hope wee haue of our Resurrection. Mens bodies shall rise, and to signifie so much, we should lay them in the graue as in a safe place to keepe them till the Resurrection.
For the place where he was buried, that may be diversly answered.
For the place where he was buried, that may be diuersly answered.
1. He was buried in a noted place near to Jerusalem: and that for two causes: The one, that so all occasion of doubting of his death, or truth of his burial, and so of his resurrection might be removed. The other, that by the rest of Christ in the grave, the vision of rest and peace (which the name Jerusalem signified) might be known to be procured by Christ: Rest I say spiritual and eternal.
1. He was buried in a noted place neere to Ierusalem: and that for two causes: The one, that so all occasion of doubting of his death, or truth of his buriall, and so of his resurrection might be remoued. The other, that by the rest of Christ in the graue, the vision of rest and peace (which the name Ierusalem signified) might be knowne to bee procured by Christ: Rest I say spirituall and eternall.