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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Introduction: OF THE CREED IN GENERAL.THE CREEDE. › Introduction: OF THE CREED IN GENERALL.

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.

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1. What the Creed is. 2. What we are bound to do with the Creed.

1. What the Creed is. 2. What we are bound to doe with the Creed.

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For the first, the Apostles own words, do tell us, what ¹such sound abridgements of the chiefest Mysteries of Religion are, they are Patterns, forms or frames of wholesome words; where two things are said:

For the first, the Apostles owne words, doe tell vs, what ¹such sound abridgements of the chiefest Mysteries of Religion are, they are Patternes, formes or frames of wholesome words; where two things are said:

1What the Creed is.

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1. That they are wholesome words. 2. That they are Patterns.¹

1. That they are wholesome words. 2. That they are Patternes.¹

1What wholesome words are. Unwholesome doctrines of two sorts.What wholesome words are. Vnwholesome doctrines of two sorts.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622

Place

London

Printer

G.M.

Bookseller

Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith

Year

1626

Size

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p.

Words

212,467

Catalogue

STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

Text

EEBO-TCP A69028

Passages

2,700

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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