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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
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. Contemplative delight: Men are delighted with the smell of 1flowers, and the sight of colours, how much more may, and ought our minds to be delighted in the observation & meditation of such glorious truths as these: for these Articles do exhibit to the believing soul, the glory of God to be viewed in the things of greatest excellency, even the choicest things wherein God hath made known the wonder of his goodness unto man. And therefore these things are good for meditation all the days of our lives, if we had once but the skill to open the glories are here contained. Many Christians are much distressed about meditation: They complain they cannot tell what to think of profitably: In the Creed is contained the abridgement of these shining doctrines upon which we may, and ought always to look & wonder.
1. Contemplatiue delight: Men are delighted with the smell of 1flowers, and the sight of colours, how much more may, and ought our mindes to be delighted in the obseruation & meditation of such glorious truthes as these: for these Articles doe exhibit to the beleeuing soule, the glory of God to be veiwed in the things of greatest excellencie, euen the choisest things wherein God hath made knowne the wonder of his goodnes vnto man. And therefore these things are good for meditation all the daies of our liues, if we had once but the skill to open the glories are heere contained. Many Christians are much distressed about meditation: They complaine they cannot tell what to thinke of profitablie: In the Creed is cōtained the abridgement of these shining doctrines vpon which we may, and ought alwaies to look & wonder.
- 11. Voluptas theoretica.
2. The restoring of the Image of God in our minds: for by bringing in these knowledges, we set up again the frame