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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 7 › From thence he shall come to judge both quick and dead. › Ob. But how can this be just, that they should be punished for ever…: Ob. But how can this be just, that they should be punished for ever, that have sinned b…THE CREEDE. › Article 7 › From thence he shall come to iudge both quicke and dead. › Ob. But how can this be iust, that they should be punished for euer…: Ob. But how can this be iust, that they should be punished for euer, that haue sinned b…

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18. All Swearers, for God hath vowed he will not hold them guiltless, Commandment 3.

18. All Swearers, for God hath vowed hee will not hold them guiltlesse, Commandement 3.

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19. All gross offenders, not mentioned before, as Murderers, Idolaters, Sorcerers, Usurers, and such like, Reu. 21. •8. and 22. 15.

19. All grosse offenders, not mentioned before, as Murtherers, Idolators, Sorcerers, Vsurers, and such like, Reu. 21. •8. and 22. 15.

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20. All civill honest men that rest only in being free from outward gross crimes: these shall come to judgement for their want of the power of Religion, Matth. 5. 19. and for all their idle words, Matth. 12. and for all their evil thoughts, for God will try the heart and reins.

20. All ciuill honest men that rest only in being free from outward grosse crimes: these shall come to iudgement for their want of the power of Religion, Matth. 5. 19

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