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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.
2. As he is that increated first and chief Truth, and that immutable Archetype, exemplar, and Idea of all true things without himself as he is the frame of all things in his mind: The true patterns of all things were in the mind of God from eternity, and all created things are said to be true only as they answer these patterns.
2. As he is that increated first and chiefe Truth, and that immutable Archetype, exemplar, and Idea of all true things without himself as he is the frame of all things in his minde: The true patternes of all things were in the minde of God from eternity, and all created things are said to be true only as they answer these patternes.
3. In his internal works: and so his decrees are all true: not one of them mistaken, or disappointed, but have their precise and punctual accomplishment.
3. In his internall workes: and so his decrees are all true: not one of them mistaken, or disappointed, but haue their precise and punctuall accomplishment.
2. God is true without himself towards the creatures and so:
2. God is true without himselfe towards the creatures and so: