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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.
The signs which do properly prognosticate and give warning to the world of the coming of Christ, are so described in Scripture, as they serve successively one after another, to give warning in every age of the Church: and therefore the signs began to discover themselves in the very age of the Apostles, and so downwards, and will so be ordered, as every age yet to come shall have their special warnings to provide for that day: and so I take the proper signs to be in number eight.
The signes which do properly prognosticate and giue warning to the world of the comming of Christ, are so described in Scripture, as they serue successiuely one after another, to giue warning in euery age of the Church: and therefore the signes began to discouer themselues in the very age of the Apostles, and so downwards, and will so be ordered, as euery age yet to come shall haue their speciall warnings to prouide for that day: and so I take the proper signes to be in number eight.
The first is the signs of certain Antichrists, that is, special false and heretical teachers, professing the Christian religion, which should teach doctrine that deprived the souls of men, of the benefit of redemption by Christ: and these Antichrists were but fore-runners of the great Antichrist. This Saint John makes a sign, and this sign was accomplished, or began to be so, while yet S. John was alive, 1 Joh. 2. 18.
The first is the signes of certaine Antichrists, that is, speciall false and hereticall teachers, professing the Christian religion, which should teach doctrine that depriued the soules of men, of the benefit of redemption by Christ: and these Antichrists were but fore-runners of the great Antichrist. This Saint Iohn makes a signe, and this signe was accomplished, or began to be so, while yet S. Iohn was aliue, 1 Ioh. 2. 18.