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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 6 › TenetTHE CREEDE. › Article 6 › Tenet
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And further, it may be thereby was shadowed out the manner of our meeting with our Saviour at the last day, that as a cloud took him away, so in the clouds should we meet him again, 1 Thes. 4. 17. Thus of the second point.
And further, it may be thereby was shadowed out the manner of our meeting with our Sauiour at the last day, that as a cloud tooke him away, so in the clouds should we meet him againe, 1 Thes. 4. 17. Thus of the second point.
The third question is, When he ascended? and to that the answer is short, viz. forty days after his resurrection: why he stayed forty days before he ascended, was showed before, viz. that he might instruct his Disciples about his Kingdom; and withal, to show that the doctrine of the Gospel was not inferior to the doctrine of the Law, which Moses was in receiving from the mouth of God forty days in the Mount: and as he was forty days in the wilderness meditating of his work, before he began to preach, so is he forty days in preparing his Disciples, before he send them ⟨p. 481⟩forth about that great Work of the conversion of the Nations.
The third question is, When hee ascended? and to that the answer is short, viz. forty dayes after his resurrection: why hee staied forty daies before he ascended, was shewed before, viz. that hee might instruct his Disciples about his Kingdome; and withall, to shew that the doctrine of the Gospell was not inferiour to the doctrine of the Law, which Moses was in receiuing from the mouth of God forty daies in the Mount: and as he was forty daies in the wildernesse meditating of his worke, before he began to preach, so is hee forty daies in preparing his Disciples, before hee send them ⟨p. 481⟩