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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.
For the second, the Omnipresence of God is that unmeasurablenesse of his Nature, by which he is wheresoever the creature is, or any place is, Psal. 139. 8, 9. Isay 66. 1. Jer. 23. 24. thus God fills all things and penetrateth into all things circumscribed or defined with no spaces of any places, reaching to whatsoever either is or can be thought within or without the world. And which is the more marvellous his whole essence is in the whole world, and in every part of it, whole in this whole world, and whole without the world, shut in no where, nor shut out any where, containing all things, and contained of nothing. He may be truly said to be every where, and no where, as he is contained of nothing. Nor is he thus present with all things only by his power, but by his essence, for it must needs be a childish thing to imagine an infinite power to proceed from a finite essence. The cause then of his ubiquity, 1is the unmeasurablenesse of Gods essence. God is such a sphere whose Centre is every where, and whose circumference is no where.
For the second, the Omnipresence of God is that vnmeasurablenesse of his Nature, by which hee is wheresoeuer the creature is, or any place is, Psal. 139. 8, 9. Isay 66. 1. Ier. 23. 24. thus God fills all things and penetrateth into all things circumscribed or defined with no spaces of any places, reaching to whatsoeuer either is or can be thought within or without the world. And which is the more maruellous his whole essence is in the whole world, and in euery part of it, whole in this whole world, and whole without the world, shut in no where, nor shut out any where, containing all things, and contained of nothing. He may be truely said to be euery where, and no where, as he is contained of nothing. Nor is hee thus present with all things onely by his power, but by his essence, for it must needs be a childish thing to imagine an infinite power to proceede from a finite essence. The cause then of his vbiquitie, 1is the vnmeasurablenesse of Gods essence. God is such a sphere whose Center is euery where, and whose circumference is no where.