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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.
The Apostle Paul in this place shows, that besides their 1course of instructing the Churches in particular Doctrines, according to occasion; they did extract into one body, the Heads of all Religion, which they did in all places carefully unfold, and preach upon unto the people; and these Heads thus gathered together, as the principal things handled in all the Scriptures, the Apostle calls here the pattern of wholesome words, and were divided into two general Heads or Titles, Faith and Love.
The Apostle Paul in this place shewes, that besides their 1course of instructing the Churches in particular Doctrines, according to occasion; they did extract into one body, the Heads of all Religion, which they did in all places carefully vnfolde, and preach vpon vnto the people; and these Heads thus gathered together, as the principall things handled in all the Scriptures, the Apostle calles heere the patterne of wholesome words, and were diuided into two generall Heads or Titles, Faith and Loue.
- 1The Apostles Pattern.The Apostles Patterne.
Now there are also two ways of handling these heads of Religion; the one more plainly and briefly, by way of Catechizing: the other more largely and exactly, by way of Methodical ⟨p. 3⟩Doctrine: The one is necessary for young beginners in Religion, and the other needful to build up a people in the knowledge begun in them.
Now there are also two waies of handling these heads of Religion; the one more plainly and briefly, by way of Catechizing: the other more largely and exactly, by way of Methodicall ⟨p. 3⟩