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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 operation of the holy Spirit common to all creatures is the making of them at the first, and the special preparing and quickening of the first matter, that it might produce the several forms of things. Thus the Holy Ghost is likened to a Fowl that sits upon her eggs till the young ⟨p. 539⟩ones be hatched, Gen. 1. 2. So did the Holy Ghost sit upon the first Chaos, till it was made apt for the several forms of all things. And it was the Spirit of the Lord that garnished the heavens, Job 26. 13. and so it is the work of the holy Ghost to give life to all the creatures still in their several kinds, for the preservation of the sorts of things. Thus God sendeth his Spirit still, and they are created, Psal. 104. 30.
The operation of the holy Spirit common to all creatures is the making of them at the first, and the speciall preparing and quickning of the first matter, that it might produce the seuerall formes of things. Thus the Holy Ghost is likened to a Fowle that sits vpon her egges till the young ⟨p. 539⟩ones be hatched, Gen. 1. 2. So did the Holy Ghost sit vpon the first Chaos, till it was made apt for the seuerall formes of all things. And it was the Spirit of the Lord that garnished the heauens, Iob 26. 13. and so it is the worke of the holy Ghost to giue life to all the creatures stil in their seuerall kinds, for the preseruation of the sorts of things. Thus God sendeth his Spirit still, and they are created, Psal. 104. 30.