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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.
He therefore that would reach to the comprehending of the knowledge of God, must be sure to keep these Rules.
Hee therfore that would reach to the comprehending of the knowledge of God, must bee sure to keepe these Rules.
1. He must cleanse and purge, and scour his heart from the filth and dross of false opinions and strange and Atheistical conceits concerning God: yea, he must wholly empty himself of all opinion concerning his own sufficiency to conceive of God, of himself: for if it be true of other knowledges in Religion, that a man must become a fool that he may be wise, 1 Cor. 3. 18. it is much more true in this doctrine concerning God.
1. Hee must cleanse and purge, and scoure his heart from the filth and drosse of false opinions and strange and Atheisticall conceits concerning God: yea, hee must wholly empty himselfe of all opinion concerning his owne sufficiencie to conceiue of God, of himselfe: for if it bee true of other knowledges in Religion, that a man must become a foole that he may be wise, 1 Cor. 3. 18. it is much more true in this doctrine concerning God.
2. He must then address himself to Gods Word, and resolve 1to learn from thence how to conceive of God. God is not to be accounted of by others assertions, but to be measured by his own words. We shall never learn what he is, by asking what others say of him, but must here what he saith of himself: for God is not known without God, as one saith, Of God we must learn whatsoever of God we would understand.