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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 1 › I Believe in God.THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue in God.
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 first thing we are to study to know and believe is God. This is the first doctrine of the Creed: there are many things should inflame the hearts of Christians to a great desire after the doctrine concerning God and his nature: as,
The first thing we are to studie to know and beleeue is God. This is the first doctrine of the Creed: there are many things should inflame the hearts of Christians to a great desire after the doctrine concerning God and his nature: as,
1. It is the most glorious subject of all others in the world: no doctrine can tell us of such marvellous things as the doctrine of God doth.
1. It is the most glorious subiect of all others in the world: no doctrine can tell vs of such marueilous things as the doctrine of God doth.
2. It is the end of our Creation: all other things though made by God, yet they have no discerning of him. Now God made man, and gave him a reasonable soul, that he might ⟨p. 43⟩see God, and the great works he had done; else in the Visible world, there had bin none to know or praise God: Nothing therefore can be more contrary to the end of our Creation, then if we spend our time, and do not labour to know and praise God.
2. It is the end of our Creation: all other things though made by God, yet they haue no discerning of him. Now God made man, and gaue him a reasonable soule, that hee might ⟨p. 43⟩