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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.
The Title of the Creed.
The Creed hath two things in it to be considered of: The Title and the Articles of faith comprehended in it: the Title, usual and ancient, is the Apostles Creed. Where is noted the Authors of these doctrines, and the kind of doctrine. The Authors were the Apostles: the kind of doctrine is a Creed: first of the Authors.1
THe Creed hath two things in it to bee considered of: The Title and the Articles of faith comprehended in it: the Title, vsuall and antient, is the Apostles Creed. Where is noted the Authors of these doctrines, and the kinde of doctrine. The Authors were the Apostles: the kinde of doctrine is a Creed: first of the Authors.1
- 1How the Creed is the Apostles.
All men grant the Creed to be the Apostles: but yet all agree not about the sense, How the Creed may be said to be the Apostles: for some think it is the Apostles Creed, because the Apostles made it and compiled it in the form as it now is. Others think it is the Apostles Creed because it contains the substance of their Doctrine, though it were not made by them.