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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
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. Against desperate afflictions: if we be brought as low as Christ was by the hand of God, or malice of men, yet we should hope in God, who is able to raise us up from most deadly crosses. Thus the Prophet Isaiah tells the people their dead men shall live, Isaiah 26. 19.
1. Against desperate afflictions: if we be brought as low as Christ was by the hand of God, or malice of men, yet we should hope in God, who is able to raise vs vp from most deadly crosses. Thus the Prophet Esay tells the people their dead men shall liue, Esay 26. 19.
2. Against the combat with Gods wrath for our sins. We may safely fly to the Resurrection of Christ, to assure our Justification: he died and was buried for our sins, and therefore rising from the dead, it must needs be for our Justification, Rom. 4. 25. Seeing in his Resurrection he comes our of Prison, and so declares that he hath discharged all our debt, and this a good conscience may plead to save it self against the seas of Gods wrath, if they were like the waters of the Deluge, as Saint Peter shows, 1 Pet. 3. 21.
2. Against the combat with Gods wrath for our sinnes. We may safely flie to the Resurrecton of Christ, to assure our Iustification: hee died and was buried for our sinnes, and therefore rising from the dead, it must needs be for our Iustification, Rom. 4. 25. Seeing in his Resurrection hee comes our of Prison, and so declares that he hath discharged all our debt, and this a good conscience may plead to saue it selfe against the seas of Gods wrath, if they were like the waters of the Deluge, as Saint Peter shewes, 1 Pet. 3. 21.