A69028:2604
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 sin against the Holy Ghost that is unpardonable, ⟨p. 547⟩is a sin after illumination, and sanctification, by which a man doth wilfully and wholly fall away, contemning the Gospel, and doth despite the works of the power and grace of the Holy Ghost, without remorse to the death.
The sinne against the Holy Ghost that is vnpardonable, ⟨p. 547⟩is a sinne after illumination, and sanctification, by which a man doth wilfully and wholly fall away, contemning the Gospell, and doth despight the works of the power and grace of the Holy Ghost, without remorse to the death.
1. When I say the sin unpardonable, I exclude all the sins against the Holy Ghost named before.
1. When I say the sin vnpardonable, I exclude all the sins against the Holy Ghost named before.
2. When I say a sin after illumination and sanctification, I exclude all the sins of such people as never had the powerful means of salvation, or never so as to work a manifest change in them. The person that commits this sin, must be such a one as was before enlightened, Hebr. 6. and sanctified, Heb. 10. 29. that is such a one as did attain to divers gifts which he had not before, which were wrought in him by the Holy Ghost, and had a taste of the doctrine he heard, and of the powers of the life to come: but yet he was not sanctified with any saving grace, or repentance from all sin, or effectual relying upon Jesus Christ for his own salvation. He had tastes of many things, but did not soundly digest any thing.