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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.
3. In that he calls them Cursed, it shows that every wicked man is a cursed creature; and withal, that to be under Gods curse is the quintessence of misery. And therefore godly men have little cause to envy the prosperity of any wicked man, nor wicked man to be so drunken with the ⟨p. 528⟩estimation of the fading glory of earthly possessions.
3. In that he calls them Cursed, it shewes that euery wicked man is a cursed creature; and withall, that to be vnder Gods curse is the quintessence of misery. And therefore godly men haue little cause to enuy the prosperitie of any wicked man, nor wicked man to be so drunken with the ⟨p. 528⟩estimation of the fading glory of earthly possessions.
4. In that he saith, Into everlasting fire, it notes the unspeakable horror of the pain of wicked men in Hell. If a man knew he must lie in a burning fire but one day, oh how would he be dismayed? Oh what senselessness hath bewitched ungodly men, that are not frighted with everlasting burnings? They are wonderfully blinded, that strive to believe, that there is only Poena Damni, not Poena Sensus, in Hell: That there is no pain in Hell, but only loss of good things, as the presence of God and Christ, &c.
4. In that he saith, Into euerlasting fire, it notes the vnspeakable horror of the paine of wicked men in Hell. If a man knew he must lie in a burning fire but one day, oh how would he be dismayed? Oh what senselesnesse hath bewitched vngodly men, that are not frighted with euerlasting burnings? They are wonderfully blinded, that striue to beleeue, that there is only Poena Damni, not Poena Sensus, in Hell: That there is no paine in Hell, but only losse of good things, as the presence of God and Christ, &c.