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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. To all ill natured, fierce, unmerciful, froward and cruel minded persons: for hence it appears they are not of God: they that are of God are like to his nature in some degree, but these natures are of the devil, 3. John 11. 1. John 3. 6. 10. John 8. 44.
1. To all ill natured, fierce, vnmercifull, froward and cruell minded persons: for hence it appeares they are not of God: they that are of God are like to his nature in some degree, but these natures are of the diuell, 3. Iohn 11. 1. Iohn 3. 6. 10. Iohn 8. 44.
2. To such as abuse this so great goodness of God, as they do that profane the doctrine of it, by taking liberty from thence to sin the more securely, and so turn the grace of God into wantonness: woeful is the condition of such persons, for thereby they heap up wrath against the day of wrath, and deprive themselves of all the benefits of Gods goodness, Jude 3. Rom. 6. 1. Heb. 10. 29. Rom. 2. 5. 4. Deut. 29. 19.