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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.
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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.
4. The wonderfull wrath of God against sinners may appeare by his Iudgements abroad in the world whether wee consider the number of the effects of them: Are there not Armies and changes of sorrowes with which the Lord doth vex euery part of the world? And doth not the Lord by common Plagues sweepe away thousands of men by Warres, Pestilence, Famine, &c. and besides are not strange punishments euery day heere and there vpon the workers of iniquity? What heart of man can stand before that fearefull wrath of God, when he pursues the sinnes of the Fathers vpon the children? But aboue all these temporall Plagues are those spirituall iudgements executed vpon worlds of men, whose soules are smitten with worse then Aegyptian darkenesse, shut out from the vision or sense of God, possessed really by diuells, &c.
5. If we think seriously upon the examples of men, that have felt the bitterness of Gods displeasure: and they that have felt it, can best tell how terrible it is.
5. If we thinke seriously vpon the examples of men, that haue felt the bitternesse of Gods displeasure: and they that haue felt it, can best tell how terrible it is.