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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.
2. By Apparition: God was pleased in the first Ages of the world to appea•e unto men, and by some certain visible signs of his presence to acquaint himself with man.
2. By Apparition: God was pleased in the first Ages of the world to appea•e vnto men, and by some certaine visible signes of his presence to acquaint himselfe with man.
3. By the book of the creature: for by unfolding before man in an open and ••sting show, the various forms and shapes of things which he made, he by them did augment the light of the natural sparkles, and evidently confirm and prove his Divinity, Wisdom, Power, and Goodness to man, Rom. 1.
3. By the booke of the creature: for by vnfolding before man in an open and ••sting shew, the various formes and shapes of things which he made, he by them did augment the light of the naturall sparkles, and euidently confirme and proue his Diuinity, Wisedome, Power, and Goodnesse to man, Rom. 1.
4. When none of these were sufficient to bring man to a perfect knowledge of God: nor to so much as might save his soul, and bring him into happy fellowship with God, God was pleased in the book of Scripture, to extract out of the infinite depths of knowledges which were in his eternal mind, a frame of descriptions, and testimonies concerning himself, and his will, and this in his due time by degrees he gave unto the Church, and is contained in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles.