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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.
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.
1. To confute the makers and worshippers of Images, seeing God is aboue all that which any minde can conceiue, and therefore much more then any picture can expresse: They sinne fearefully, therefore in offering to vs a God that can be set out by so poore a resemblance. Images therefore are worthily called by the Prophet teachers of Lies.
2. To teach us to worship God with all our minds, and all our hearts, and all our might, striving to admire and adore, and daily to bless his unsearchable greatness, Psalm 145. 2, 3. And for our direction in the right conceiving of God, we should therefore wholly rest upon that way, and those descriptions he hath made of himself in his word, seeing else our understandings would err altogether in guessing at that which it cannot take in.
2. To teach vs to worship God with all our mindes, and all our hearts, and all our might, striuing to admire and adore, and daily to blesse his vnsearchable greatnesse, Psalme 145. 2, 3. And for our direction in the right conceiuing of God, we should therefore wholy rest vpon that way, and those descriptions he hath made of himselfe in his word, seeing else our vnderstandings would erre altogether in ghessing at that which it cannot take in.