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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.
The incommunicable Attributes are so in God, as they can be found in no creature, nor any likeness of them. And these are three, (viz.) his infinite greatness, his eternity, and his immutability. And these three as they are not found in any thing but God, so are they as it were spread and poured out through all the Attributes of the first sort: for God is Infinite. Eternal, and Immutable, in Wisdom, Holiness, Life and Glory. And so these Proprieties are as it were the Adjuncts or proprieties of the other Attributes.
The incommunicable Attributes are so in God, as they can be found in no creature, nor any likenesse of them. And these are three, (viz.) his infinite greatnesse, his eternity, and his immutability. And these three as they are not found in any thing but God, so are they as it were spread and powred out through all the Attributes of the first sort: for God is Infinite. Eternall, and Immutable, in Wisedome, Holinesse, Life and Glory. And so these Proprieties are as it were the Adiuncts or proprieties of the other Attributes.
First, then of the infinite greatness of God.
First, then of the infinite greatnesse of God.
The infinite greatness of God, is that essential propriety in God by which he is signified to be, of himself, actually and simply beyond all bounds, limits and measure: and so his infinite greatness or immensivenesse comprehends:
The infinite greatnesse of God, is that essentiall propriety in God by which hee is signified to be, of himselfe, actually and simply beyond all bounds, limits and measure: and so his infinite greatnesse or immensiuenesse comprehends: