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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.
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Lastly, it serves for great consolation to the godly in all their troubles and dangers, and against all the practices and devises of their adversaries: nothing can befall them but what God sees, and they need not fear, because God is always by them to help them, Joshua 1. 9. Isaiah 4•. 1. 2. Psalm 118. 6. 7. though all friends were absent yet God is with us.
Lastly, it serues for great consolation to the godly in all their troubles and dangers, and against all the practizes and deuises of their aduersaries: nothing can befall them but what God sees, and they neede not feare, because God is alwaies by them to helpe them, Ioshuah 1. 9. Esay 4•. 1. 2. Psalme 118. 6. 7. though all friends were absent yet God is with vs.
Thus of the omnipresence of God.
His incomprehensibleness, is that dreadful transcendency of the nature of God, whereby it passeth our understanding, so as his essence cannot be fully conceived of by us: so as neither corporeal places, nor spiritual understanding can contain God. His omnipresence makes him bigger then all places, and his incomprehensibleness bigger then any created mind, Psal. 145. 3. 1. Tim. 6. 16.
His incomprehensiblenesse, is that dreadfull transcendencie of the nature of God, whereby it passeth our vnderstanding, so as his essence cannot bee fully conceiued of by vs: so as neither corporeall places, nor spirituall vnderstanding can containe God. His omnipresence makes him bigger then all places, and his incomprehensiblenesse bigger then any created minde,