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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.
8. When men tempt the Holy Ghost: and that is when they will do such things as they know are evil, and put it to the trial, whether they shall be punished or discovered. Thus Ananias tempted the Holy Ghost that was in Peter, by lying and dissembling, Act. 5. 3. 5.
8. When men tempt the Holy Ghost: and that is when they will doe such things as they know are euill, and put it to the triall, whether they shall be punished or discouered. Thus Ananias tempted the Holy Ghost that was in Peter, by lying and dissembling, Act. 5. 3. 5.
9. By receiving the grace of the Spirit in vain: and this is a sin in such as have been enlightened, and have had some common graces, yet fall away, and all comes to nothing, in that no sound reformation follows.
9. By receiuing the grace of the Spirit in vaine: and this is a sinne in such as haue beene inlightned, and haue had some common graces, yet fall away, and all comes to nothing, in that no sound reformation followes.
10. By quenching the Spirit: and this may be committed by two sorts of men. First, by wicked men that have temporary gifts of the Spirit, with some special tastes of remorse, or joy, or of the powers of the life to come, and then fall away, and having begun in the Spirit will end in the flesh, 1 Thess. 5. 19.