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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. › 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.

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Life in GOD is admirable, and to be adored in these respects:

Life in GOD is admirable, and to bee adored in these respects:

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1. Because the life of all living creatures in general is in him: and so God is the life and light of the world, John 1. 4. as he giveth being and life to all things: The whole world had bin a Chaos of darkness, if God had not given it life, which he planted in several creatures by his admirable working.

1. Because the life of all liuing creatures in generall is in him: and so God is the life and light of the world, Iohn 1. 4. as he giueth being and life to all things: The whole world had bin a Chaos of darknesse, if God had not giuen it life, which hee planted in seuerall creatures by his admirable working.

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2. Because in particular he is after a wonderful manner the life of us men. Whether we respect our life natural or spiritual: for our natural life it is he that enlightens every man that comes into the world, and gave senses motion and reason to all men, Acts 17. 28. and for our spiritual life, tis he that quickens all the members of Christ, by the special movings of the holy Ghost in their hearts, begetting them again after a strange manner by joining his spirit to their spirits, and thus Christ lives in us: Hence this life is called the life of God,

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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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