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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. Because he is sufficient to himself, and from himself, so as he needs not any good thing from us, or any thing without himself. Psal. 16. 2. & 50. 7. 14.
3. Because he is sufficient to himselfe, and from himselfe, so as he needs not any good thing from vs, or any thing without himselfe. Psal. 16. 2. & 50. 7. 14.
3. He is glorious in his liberty; and so he excels in a threefold liberty, as he is free from compulsion, from servitude, and from misery: He is free from compulsion because he is not tied to second causes, nor mastered by any higher cause, but is, and doth whatsoever he will without the Coaction of any necessity without himself, Psal. 115. 3. Isaiah 40. 13. Daniel 4. 35. He is also free from servitude, he is bound to none, indebted to none, subject to none, Rom. 11. 35. 36. He is also free from the burden of misery, he alone being such by nature, that no kind of misery either of fault or punishment can befall him.
3. He is glorious in his liberty; and so he excells in a threefold liberty, as he is free from compulsion, from seruitude, and from miserie: He is free from compulsion because he is not tyed to second causes, nor maistered by any higher cause, but is, and doth whatsoeuer he will without the Coaction of any necessity without himselfe,