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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 5 › TenetTHE CREEDE. › Article 5 › Tenet
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12. That godly Ministers that seek Christ in their preaching, may differ much in zeal, and yet all meet in the end with Christ upon the shore. Peter leaps into the Sea, which seemed a kind of unwarranted singularity of Peter, and yet he did not ill; the other Disciples came slowly in a Boat to shore, and yet are not blamed for want of love to Christ.
12. That godly Ministers that seeke Christ in their preaching, may differ much in zeale, and yet all meet in the end with Christ vpon the shore. Peter leaps into the Sea, which seemed a kinde of vnwarranted singularitie of Peter, and yet he did not ill; the other Disciples came slowly in a Boat to shore, and yet are not blamed for want of loue to Christ.
13. That it is great deal of business to get even godly people to heaven: as here the Disciples have a great toil in it, to drag the fishes after they have caught them, to bring them to shore.
13. That it is great deale of businesse to get euen godly people to heauen: as here the Disciples haue a great toile in it, to drag the fishes after they haue caught them, to bring them to shore.
14. That the best fishing is to fish for great fish. For though it be a blessed thing when the poor receive the Gospel, yet if we could catch the great ones of the world, they would bring much more glory to God.
14. That the best fishing is to fish for great fish. For though it be a blessed thing when the poore receiue the Gospell, yet if we could catch the great ones of the world, they would bring much more glory to God.