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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.
8. Because Gods knowledge of things hath such force in it; that when and where he will, he can make the Creature feel the warmth and comfort of the knowledge of him. It is a knowledge that hath influences upon some creatures: It refresheth and worketh more upon the soul, then the Beams of the Sun upon the body. Thus when God is said to know the way of the Righteous, or their souls in adversity, or the like, the knowledge is not a bare taking notice, but an acknowledgement, or making of them to know, that he knows them, or a powerful setting of the beams of his knowledge so upon them, that they are thereby preserved, and wonderfully refreshed, and the like to this can no created knowledge do, it can cast no influence upon the thing known, Psal. 1. 6. 2. Tim. 2. 19. John 10. 14. 27. Exod. 33. 12. This appears by the contrary when of wicked men God saith, he knows them not, Mat. 7. 23. The consideration of these surpassing glories in the knowledge of God, should serve for divers Uses:
8. Because Gods knowledge of things hath such force in it; that when and where hee will, hee can make the Creature feele the warmth and comfort of the knowledge of him. It is a knowledge that hath influences vpon some creatures: It refresheth and worketh more vpon the soule, then the Beames of the Sunne vpon the bodie. Thus when God is said to know the way of the Righteous, or their soules in aduersity, or the like, the knowledge is not a bare taking notice, but an acknowledgement, or making of them to know, that he knowes them, or a powerfull setting of the beames of his knowledge so vpon them, that they are thereby prese•ued, and wonderfully refreshed, and the like to this can no created knowledge doe, it can cast no influence vpon the thing knowne, Psal. 1. 6. 2. Tim. 2. 19.