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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.
The divers forms of things in the world are beams, as it were, of the divinity, but yet they show rather that he is, then what he is, or whence they are rather then what he is.
The diuers formes of things in the world are beames, as it were, of the diuinity, but yet they shew rather that he is, then what he is, or whence they are rather then what he is.
Distinctly to consider of it we must note that God is known in this life.
Distinctly to consider of it we must note that God is knowne in this life.
1. But in his back parts.
1. But in his backe parts.
2. But according to our model or capacity: God hath extracted so much out of the Ocean of the infinite knowledge which concerns his nature, as may be taken in by our understandings.