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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.
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,
1. There is in us naturally a world of Atheistical conceits strange opinions about God, as appears not only by the variety of strange Religions, but also by that natural Atheism which every man by occasion feels in himself, when 1he either doubts of God, and thinks things that be altogether disagreeing and disproportional to the Nature of God.
1. There is in vs naturally a world of Atheisticall conceits strange opinions about God, as appeares not onely by the variety of strange Religions, but also by that naturall Atheisme which euery man by occasion feeles in himselfe, when 1he either doubts of God, and thinkes things that bee altogether disagreeing and disproportionall to the Nature of God.
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