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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.
As the Decalogue is a pattern of all duties to be done, and 1the Lords Prayer a pattern of all requests to God, so the Creed is a pattern of all Doctrine to be believed.
As the Decalogue is a patterne of all duties to be done, and 1the Lords Prayer a patterne of all requests to God, so the Creed is a patterne of all Doctrine to be belieued.
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Thus of the description of the Creed, as the words of the Apostle fitly serve for it. The more manifest description of it will appear afterwards. The keeping of this pattern follows.
Thus of the discription of the Creed, as the words of the Apostle fitly serue for it. The more manifest description of it will appeare afterwards. The keeping of this patterne followes.
When the Apostle exhorts Timothy to the keeping of this pattern, he may be understood to speak to him as a Minister, 1or as to a Christian in general. As a Minister he is enjoined with all care to endeavour to preserve the purity of Doctrine, and with great respect to teach often, and powerfully those points of Doctrine which were expressed in the pattern, as the principal truths he should aim at in the course of his Ministry. He should not through desire of vain glory affect Curiosities, or Novelties, but build up his Hearers in all the knowledge he could infuse into them by continual teaching of those doctrines. If he speak to him as a Christian in general, then this is the