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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
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.
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.
They are wholesome words both by way of opposition to doctrines that poison and corrupt the minds of men: and by ⟨p. 4⟩way of difference from such truths as for the present and in some respects are not wholesome to the hearers though in themselves they be wholesome.