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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.
1. In their creation: not only in furnishing the mind of man with such perfect gifts, nor only in planting man in that Garden of pleasure, but also in setting him in this new world, as Lord of all things, and making all other things for mans use.
1. In their creation: not onely in furnishing the minde of man with such perfect gifts, nor onely in planting man in that Garden of pleasure, but also in setting him in this new world, as Lord of all things, and making all other things for mans vse.
2. In their Redemption, in giving them his own Son to ransom them, and with him giving them all things, restoring them to all they had lost by the fall, Romans 8. 32.
2. In their Redemption, in giuing them his owne Sonne to ransome them, and with him giuing them all things, restoring them to all they had lost by the fall, Romanes 8. 32.
3. In their Sanctification, both in respect of the matter of grace, as also in respect of the means of it: he hath dealt bountifully in the matter of saving grace, because he is the God of all grace, 1 Pet. 5. 10. and every good gift proceedeth from him as the Father of Lights, James 1. 17. and so doth his bounty shine in the means of grace.