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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.
Nor will it ease them to think how hard a course this will be thought to be by all sorts of men: for God will be justified in his sayings, and clear himself though they condemn him, Psalm 51. 4. he will not respect the wise in heart, Job 37. 24.
Nor will it ease them to thinke how hard a course this will be thought to be by all sorts of men: for God will be iustified in his sayings, and cleare himselfe though they condemne him, Psalme 51. 4. hee will not respect the wise in heart, Iob 37. 24.
Neither may they persist in their wilful pretending that God is merciful, and they can show it by divers Scriptures, that God hath bound himself to show wonderful mercy to sinners: for all that mercy belongs to the godly only: and besides, God hath expressly declared himself, that if any man hearing the curses of Gods Law, shall bless himself in his heart, God will not be merciful to that man, Deut. 29. 19.
Neither may they persist in their wilfull pretending that God is mercifull, and they can shew it by diuers Scriptures, that God hath bound himselfe to shew wonderfull mercy to sinners: for all that mercy belongs to the godly onely: and besides, God hath expreslely declared himselfe, that if any man hearing the curses of Gods Law, shall blesse himselfe in his heart, God will not be mercifull to that man, Deut. 29. 19.