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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 7 › From thence he shall come to judge both quick and dead. › Ob. But how can this be just, that they should be punished for ever…: Ob. But how can this be just, that they should be punished for ever, that have sinned b…THE CREEDE. › Article 7 › From thence he shall come to iudge both quicke and dead. › Ob. But how can this be iust, that they should be punished for euer…: Ob. But how can this be iust, that they should be punished for euer, that haue sinned b…

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3. That this day will be a day of wrath to them, and not of mercy: The date of mercy unto impenitent sinners will then be out, Rom. 2. 5.

3. That this day will be a day of wrath to them, and not of mercy: The date of mercy vnto impenitent sinners will then be out, Rom. 2. 5.

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4. That all his sins shall then be discovered, even all his secret sins, and none can be forgotten, in as much as the evidence shall be given out of so many books, where all things are written, as it were, with a pen of iron, and the point of a Diamond, 1 Cor. 4. 5. Revel. 20. Jer. 17. 1.

4. That all his sins shall then be discouered, euen all his secret sins, and none can be forgotten, in as much as the euidence shall bee giuen out of so many bookes, where all things are written, as it were, with a pen of iron, and the point of a Diamond, 1 Cor. 4. 5. Reuel. 20. Ier. 17. 1.

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