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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 is one of Gods Titles, he is thus styled: The terrible God, Nehemiah 9. 32. 33.
3. It is one of Gods Titles, hee is thus stiled: The terrible God, Nehemiah 9. 32. 33.
4. It may be gathered from the terror of his rebukes in this life in his word or providence: his rebukes are called furious rebukes, Ezek. 5. 13. and they are called sharp arrows shot into the hearts of the Kings enemies, Psal 45. 5. Now if his rebukes be so terrible, what will the full declaration and execution of his whole displeasure be?
4. It may be gathered from the terror of his rebukes in this life in his word or prouidence: his rebuks are called furious rebukes, Ezek. 5. 13. and they are called sharpe arrowes shot into the hearts of the Kings enemies, Psal 45. 5. Now if his rebukes bee so terrible, what will the full declaration and execution of his whole displeasure be?
4. The wonderful wrath of God against sinners may appear by his Judgements abroad in the world whether we consider the number of the effects of them: Are there not Armies and changes of sorrows with which the Lord doth vex every part of the world? And doth not the Lord by common Plagues sweep away thousands of men by Wars, Pestilence, Famine, &c. and besides are not strange punishments every day here and there upon the workers of iniquity? What heart of man can stand before that fearful wrath of God, when he pursues the sins of the Fathers upon the children? But above all these temporal Plagues are those spiritual judgements executed upon worlds of men, whose souls are smitten with worse then Egyptian darkness, shut out from the vision or sense of God, possessed really by devils, &c.