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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.
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5. It should fully persuade us to rest upon God, and trust in him with all confidence in all estates, even wholly to commit our selves and our ways to his protection: who would not trust so good, so loving, so pitiful, so bountiful a Nature? Blessed are they that are favoured by him, and can trust in his mercies, and show it both by their abundant contentation, and by their continual recourse to him, to seek all needful good things from him that is the Fountain of all goodness, Psal. 34. 9. & 13. 6.
5. It should fully perswade vs to rest vpon God, and trust in him with all confidence in all estates, euen wholly to commit our selues and our waies to his protection: who would not trust so good, so louing, so pitifull, so bountifull a Nature? Blessed are they that are fauoured by him, and can trust in his mercies, and shew it both by their abundant contentation, and by their continuall recourse to him, to seeke all needfull good things from him that is the Fountaine of all goodnesse, Psal. 34. 9. & 13. 6.
6. How should it make us long for the coming of Jesus Christ: and hast to that day: how should we desire to be dissolved that we might be present with the Lord, and see his beauty face to face, and enjoy that unspeakable sweetness of his Nature immediately: Oh what hearts have we, that do not even hate life, for this very respect, because it hinders the Lords presence from us, and keeps us absent from him whom our souls love, 2. Thes. 3. 5. 1. John 3. 2. Psal. 31. 19