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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.
3. It may also inform us in divers things: as,
3. It may also informe vs in diuers things: as,
1. That the Testimony of God is Authentical. His Word is only fit to judge in all controversies: God is true, and all men are liars. It is a most blasphemous impiety, to deny unto the God of Truth the fullness of sufficiency to testify or conclude in the things of his own glory: what men say may be false, but what God saith must be true.
1. That the Testimonie of God is Authenticall. His Word is onely fit to iudge in all controuersies: God is true, and all men are lyars. It is a most blasphemous impiety, to deny vnto the God of Truth the fulnesse of sufficiencie to testifie or conclude in the things of his owne glory: what men say may bee false, but what God saith must bee true.
2. Concerning the woeful estate of all men that live in their sins without Repentance: Oh how fearful is their estate, when all the curses written in Gods Book, must unavoidably be executed upon them? God will not repent him of the least word in his Threatenings: He is God and not man that he should repent, 1. Sam 15. 29.
2. Concerning the wofull estate of all men that liue in their sinnes without Repentance: Oh how fearefull is their estate, when all the curses written in Gods Booke, must vnauoidablie bee executed vpon them? God will not repent him of the least word in his Threatnings: Hee is God and not man that he should repent, 1. Sam 15. 29.