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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.
God will then suffer them to enjoy what their hearts can wish in heaven or earth: they receive then as their own, all that ever God made. Now from the possession of all these ariseth joy unspeakable, and delight above imagination, not only the heart of man, but all his senses being taken up with perpetual admiration, and refreshing, being as it were continually in••riated with those rivers of pleasures that are at the right hand of God.
God will then suffer them to enioy what their hearts can wish in heauen or earth: they receiue then as their own, all that euer God made. Now from the possession of all these ariseth ioy vnspeakable, and delight aboue imagination, not only the heart of man, but all his senses being taken vp with perpetuall admiration, and refreshing, being as it were continually in••riated with those riuers of pleasures that are at the right hand of God.
The second part of the Execution, contains the thrusting of all the wicked, with the Devil and his Angels into Hell: where all the damned must suffer first abjection from the face of God, and deprivation of the very sight of all that might comfort in heaven or earth. Secondly, the gnawing of conscience upon the eternal remembrance of all their sins. Thirdly, unutterable torments in fire unquenchable. Fourthly, the horrid presence of the Devil and his Angels, all which are made more grievous, by the impossibility to find either ease or end. The life they loath they must live, and the ⟨p. 531⟩death they desire they shall never find. Oh that men could be warned in time, to provide that they never come into that place. That message Dives would have sent to his brethren, is brought unto men now by the Gospel, and therefore let them awake to live righteously, that they perish not in this great damnation, where shall be the Chaos of darkness, the horror of tribulation, the fear of confusion, the grief of fearful visions, the voice of men lamenting, the biting of worms gnawing, cold intolerable, fire unquenchable, stench intolerable, darkness palpable, and an absolute despair of all that is good.