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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.
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.
2. He was buried in a Garden: thereby having relation to the first Adam: for as our unrest began at the sin of the first Adam, so here in a Garden doth the second Adam come to rest, and so begins our spiritual rest. And withal to give us hope, that as from the sin of the first Adam we were cast out of the garden of pleasure, so by the suffering of the second Adam, who lay buried in a Garden, we might have a happy return to the heavenly Paradise. And as Christ was carried from the Cross to the garden of rest, so shall we be taken from the calamities of life, into heavenly rest.
2. He was buried in a Garden: thereby hauing relation to the first Adam: for as our vnrest began at the sinne of the first Adam, so here in a Garden doth the second Adam come to rest, and so begins our spirituall rest. And withall to giue vs hope, that as from the sinne of the first Adam we were cast out of the garden of pleasure, so by the suffering of the second Adam, who lay buried in a Garden, we might haue a happy returne to the heauenly Paradise. And as Christ was carried from the Crosse to the garden of rest, so shall we be taken from the calamities of life, into heauenly rest.