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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.
2. Because he is the Author of all that understanding skill or wisdom is found in any of the creatures: As the Sun is 1the Fountain of all the Light is in any of the Corporal creatures, so God is the Fountain of all that Light is in all understandings of men or Angels: It is God that furnished Christ man with all those treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge, Isaiah 11. 2. 'Tis from his Light that the Angels and Saints in Heaven see Light, as the Father of Lights: and all the spiritual knowledge godly men have is from above, James 3. 17. John 6. 45. Yea all the skill any men have in their callings is taught them of God, as the Prophet Isaiah shows in the very case of Husbandmen, Isaiah 28. 6▪ 26.
2. Because he is the Author of all that vnderstanding skill or wisedome is found in any of the creatures: As the Sunne is 1the Fountaine of all the Light is in any of the Corporall creatures, so God is the Fountaine of all that Light is in all vnderstandings of men or Angels: It is God that furnished Christ man with al those treasures of Wisedome and Knowledge, Esay 11. 2. 'Tis from his Light that the Angels and Saints in Heauen see Light, as the Father of Lightes: and all the spirituall knowledge godly men haue is from aboue, Iames 3. 17. Iohn 6. 45. Yea all the skill any men haue in their callings is taught them of God, as the Prophet Esay shewes in the verie case of Husbandmen, Esay 28. 6▪ 26.
- 1And so he only is Intellectus agens. He is called Deus Scientiarum. 1. Sam. 2. 3.And so he onely is Intellectus agens. He is called Deus Scientiarum.