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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.
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.
6. We are in and of our selves much more unable to conceive of God then we were at the first in our Creation, by reason of our fall from God into sin. The light we had being put ou•, and nothing left but sparkles; these sparkles left, breed more smoke in our minds then either heat or light: for,
6. We are in and of our selues much more vnable to conceiue of God then we were at the first in our Creation, by reason of our fall from God into sinne. The light we had being put ou•, and nothing left but sparkles; these sparkles left, breed more smoake in our mindes then either heate or light: for,