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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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5. In his Gifts of grace bestowed upon his people: and so his gifts and callings are without Repentance, Rom. 11. James 1. 17.
5. In his Gifts of grace bestowed vpon his people: and so his gifts and callings are without Repentance, Rom. 11. Iames 1. 17.
If any should object that God was changed in Essence, because the word became flesh, and God was made man: I answer, that though the word was made flesh, yet his divine Nature was unchanged, for neither was the Deity turned into the Humanity, nor was the proprieties of the Humane Nature derived unto the divine, but remaining what he was (viz.) God, he became what he was not (viz.) Man.
If any should obiect that God was changed in Essence, because the word became flesh, and God was made man: I answer, that though the word was made flesh, yet his diuine Nature was vnchanged, for neither was the Deity turned into the Humanity, nor was the proprieties of the Humane Nature deriued vnto the diuine, but remaining what hee was (viz.) God, he became what he was not (viz.) Man.
If any should object That motion from place to place is attributed to God: because God is said to depart from some men, and return to other men: That hath bin answered before in the Doctrine of Gods Immensity: for God moves in respect of effect in us, being unmoved in himself: As a man that rows in a Boat, looking upon the bank, thinks the bank goes from him, or comes nearer him, whereas the bank is unmoveable, and the motion is in the boat. If we respect Grammar in these Phrases, God seems indeed to be moved, but if we respect a more high and secret Philosophy, we then understand thereby that God is unmoveable, but is said to move by returning, when by the working of his spirit he makes us return to him.