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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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Lastly, it should work upon us a strong impression of desire to carry our selves as strangers here and pilgrims, and to have our conversation in heaven, where Christ is, and ••om whence we look for him to come and unite us to ⟨p. 489⟩himself, when he shall change us, and make us like himself in glory.
Lastly, it should worke vpon vs a strong impression of desire to carry our selues as strangers here and pilgrims, and to haue our conuersation in heauen, where Christ is, and ••om whence wee looke for him to come and vnite vs to ⟨p. 489⟩himselfe, when he shall change vs, and make vs like himselfe in glory.
Hitherto of the Ascension of Christ. The third degree of his exaltation is, his Session at the right hand of God.
The first words of this Article are ambiguous, because they are not taken in their proper sense: for properly, God hath no right hand, as being a Spirit, and Christ may not be thought to use no other gesture in heaven but sitting, and therefore we must enquire of the Scripture for the sense, as it is figurative; and so first what sitting may signify; then what the right hand of God signifies: and then what it is to sit at the right hand of God.
The first words of this Article are ambiguous, because they are not taken in their proper sense: for properly, God hath no right hand, as being a Spirit, and Christ may not be thought to vse no other gesture in heauen but sitting, and therefore we must enquire of the Scripture for the sense, as it is figuratiue; and so first what sitting may signifie; then what the right hand of God signifies: and then what it is to sit at the right hand of God.