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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.
4. He was buried in a Sepulchre that was new, that thereby might be signified, that the condition of death was by the merit of Christ made new, and was altogether different from that which it was wont to be: and withal to tell us, that Christ will rest in the heart of no man unless it be new.
4. He was buried in a Sepulchre that was new, that thereby might be signified, that the condition of death was by the merit of Christ made new, and was altogether different from that which it was wont to be: and withall to tell vs, that Christ will rest in the heart of no man vnlesse it be new.
5. He was buried in a Sepulchre in which never man was laid, lest his adversaries should cavil, and say it was some other that was risen, or that he rose from the dead by virtue of touching some other corps: see 2 King. 13. 21.
5. He was buried in a Sepulchre in which neuer man was laid, lest his aduersaries should cauill, and say it was some other that was risen, or that he rose from the dead by vertue of touching some other corps: see 2 King. 13. 21.
6. He was buried in another mans Sepulchre, to signify that he died and was buried not for himself, but for other men: and that he might show that graves properly belong to us which have sinned, to warn us of our mortality. Joseph caused his sepulchre to be made in his garden of pleasure, that he might be thereby put in mind of his mortality in the middest of the delights of this life.