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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.
For the third, the believer may be comforted many ways, though his Faith be but weak: for,
For the third, the beleeuer may be comforted many waies, though his Faith be but weake: for,
1. Christ hath promised, that he will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, Mat. 12. 20.
1. Christ hath promised, that he will not breake the b•uised reede, nor quench the smoaking flaxe, Mat. 12. 20.
2. Weak Faith doth apply the mercy of God, and the benefits of Christs death, aswell as a strong Faith: as a weak or paralytic hand will receive a gift, aswell as a sound and stead die hand: he that hath a weak sight, though he see not so well as he that hath a perfect sight, yet he sees so much of the light of the Sun, as may serve his turn to walk safely. Though an Infant cannot eat so much as a strong man, yet he eats so much as preserves life, and makes him grow.
2. Weake Faith doth apply the mercy of God, and the benefits of Christs death, aswell as a strong Faith: as a weake or paraliticke hand will receiue a gift, aswell as a sound and sted die hand: he that hath a weake sight, though he see not so well as he that hath a persect sight, yet he sees so much of the light of the Sunne, as may serue his turne to walke safely. Though an Infant cannot eate so much as a strong man, yet he eates so much as preserues life, and makes him grow.