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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.
2. In the signs of his presence, such as he gave extraordinarily on earth, as the cloud and pillar of fire, Exod. 16. 8. 11. or that likeness of consuming fire on the top of the Mount, Exod. 24. 17. the cloud that filled the Temple, 1. Kings 8. 10. 11. or the forms mentioned in Ezek. Chap 1. 28. & 3. 23. &▪ 10. 4. 18. & 11. 22, 23. or else such as he gives in heaven in the presence of his Glory to the Saints, and this was that Glory of God which Stephen saw, Acts 7. 55.
2. In the signes of his presence, such as he gaue extraordinarily on earth, as the cloud and pillar of fire, Exod. 16. 8. 11. or that likenesse of consuming fire on the toppe of the Mount, Exod. 24. 17. the cloude that filled the Temple, 1. Kings 8. 10. 11. or the formes mentioned in Ezek. Chap 1. 28. & 3. 23. &▪ 10. 4. 18. & 11. 22, 23. or else such as hee giues in heauen in the presence of his Glory to the Saints, and this was that Glory of God which Stephen saw, Acts 7. 55.
3. In his word, especially the Gospel, which is the doctrine of the Glory of the blessed God, 1. Tim. 1. 11