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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.
For the second of these, all things shall be so made new, as all creatures that were brought into bondage shall then be set at liberty, and receive restitution, as is manifest, Acts 3. 21. Rom. 8. 23. That this point may be the more clearly understood, I must consider of two things. First, how the creatures are in bondage now, and then how they shall be at liberty then. The creatures be now in bondage many ways: First, as any of them are corruptible, so in bondage to corruption. Secondly, as they are subject to mutations, and ⟨p. 532⟩confusions, as in the case of the Air and Seas. Thirdly, as they are forced to serve the turns of wicked men, and their uses. Fourthly, as they are teachers of the world, and men will not learn: the creatures are Gods great book, and it is a bondage to teach and lose their labour. Fifthly, as any of them are either the instrument, or the subject of mans punishment. Sixthly, as since the fall they have lost their vigorous instincts, as they are dulled and distempered in them.
For the second of these, all things shall be so made new, as all creatures that were brought into bondage shall then be set at libertie, and receiue restitution, as is manifest, Acts 3. 21. Rom. 8. 23. That this point may be the more clearely vnderstood, I must consider of two things. First, how the creatures are in bondage now, and then how they shall be at liberty then. The creatures be now in bondage many wayes: First, as any of them are corruptible, so in bondage to corruption. Secondly, as they are subiect to mutations, and ⟨p. 532⟩confusions, as in the case of the Aire and Seas. Thirdly, as they are forced to serue the turnes of wicked men, and their vses. Fourthly, as they are teachers of the world, and men will not learne: the creatures are Gods great booke, and it is a bondage to teach and lose their labour. Fifthly, as any of them are either the instrument, or the subiect of mans punishment. Sixthly, as since the fall they haue lost their vigorous instincts, as they are dulled and distempered in them.