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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.
Thus of Eternity.
Thus of Eternitie.
Now the Eternity of God is his essential propriety, by which is signified that God can end in no time, nor can have any beginning according to time, but being more ancient then all time, and more lasting then any end, is absolutely, always, totally and together without succession.
Now the Eternity of God is his essentiall propriety, by which is signified that God can end in no time, nor can haue any beginning according to time, but being more ancient then all time, and more lasting then any end, is absolutely, alwaies, totally and together without succession.
For the explanation of this description, divers things are to be noted:
For the explanation of this description, diuers things are to be noted:
First, that God is wholly without the measures of time: though he be eternal yet he is not temporary: there is a great