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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.
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⟩see God, and the great workes he had done; els 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 wee spend our time, and do not labour to know and praise God.
3. The whole doctrine of Religion, is called Theology, which word in the original, taken a sunder, is a speech or doctrine concerning God: to signify, that without the true knowledge of God, there can be no true Religion or right understanding of any thing: God is the principal Subject of all Religious doctrine.
3. The whole doctrine of Religion, is called Theologie, which word in the originall, taken a funder, is a speech or doctrine concerning God: to signifie, that without the true knowledge of God, there can be no true Religion or right vnderstanding of any thing: God is the principall Subiect of all Religious doctrine.