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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 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.
The second part of the Execution, containes the thrusting of all the wicked, with the Diuell and his Angels into Hell: where all the damned must suffer first abiection from the face of God, and depriuation of the very sight of all that might comfort in heauen or earth. Secondly, the gnawing of conscience vpon the eternall remembrance of all their sinnes. Thirdly, vnutterable torments in fire vnquenchable. Fourthly, the horrid presence of the Deuill and his Angels, all which are made more grieuous, by the impossibilitie to find either ease or end. The life they loath they must liue, and the ⟨p. 531⟩death they desire they shall neuer finde. Oh that men could be warned in time, to prouide that they neuer come into that place. That message Diues would haue sent to his brethren, is brought vnto men now by the Gospell, and therefore let them awake to liue righteously, that they perish not in this great damnation, where shall be the Chaos of darknesse, the horror of tribulation, the feare of confusion, the griefe of fearfull visions, the voice of men lamenting, the biting of wormes gnawing, cold intollerable, fire vnquenchable, stinch intollerable, darknesse palpable, and an absolute despaire of all that is good.