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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
THE CREED. › Article 1 › I Believe in God.THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue in God.
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.
3. We want the benefit of similitudes: for Gods nature differs infinitely from the natures of all other things, and therefore nothing can be found to liken God to it, without singular injury, Isaiah 40. 17.
3. Wee want the benefit of similitudes: for Gods nature differs infinitely from the natures of all other things, and therfore nothing can be found to liken God to it, without singular iniurie, Esay 40. 17.
4. God doth not now appear to us as he did to the Fathers in the first Ages of the World.
4. God doth not now appeare to vs as hee did to the Fathers in the first Ages of the World.
5. We are destitute of the help of Demonstration à priori as they call it in Schools. There was no essence before him, nor any thing that might leave the name or nature of a cause of his being.
5. We are destitute of the helpe of Demonstration à priori as they call it in Schooles. There was no essence before him, nor any thing that might leaue the name or nature of a cause of his being.