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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.
1. By daily doubts of Gods favour, and fears least their estate be not right.
1. By daily doubts of Gods fauour, and feares least their estate be not right.
2. By ignorance, not only in many ordinary truths, but in many of the promises of the Gospel, Matthew 8. 26. & 16. 8.
2. By ignorance, not onely in many ordinary truthes, but in many of the promises of the Gospel, Matthew 8. 26. & 16. 8.
3. By the hasty and violent unquietness of the heart in adversity, even in the daily and lesser crosses of life, and by those sudden fears in time of danger, notwithstanding Gods promise, ⟨p. 40⟩and the experience of Gods assistance and deliverance: and by the unrest of the heart if there be not present help, James 1. 5. 6. Mat. 14. 30. 31. Luke 18. 8.