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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.
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, Psal. 145. 3. 1. Tim. 6. 16.
The incomprehensibleness of God is not without use, for it may serve:
The incomprehensiblenesse of God is not without vse, for it may serue:
1. To confute the makers and worshippers of Images, seeing God is above all that which any mind can conceive, and therefore much more then any picture can express: They sin fearfully, therefore in offering to us a God that can be set out by so poor a resemblance. Images therefore are worthily called by the Prophet teachers of Lies.