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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.
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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2. A singular debility and impotency to take in the doctrine of God, especially with affection into our hearts.
2. A singular debility and impotencie to take in the doctrine of God, especially with affection into our hearts.
3. A slippery kind of Levity in our minds, that what we do receive we loose, and forget, or else change into other conceits.