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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.
If any yet object, that the Spirit of God was said to move upon the waters, Gen. 1. 2. The answer is, that by that saying is signified no more then that the holy Ghost by his power and moving did cherish and sustain that indigested matter, as an Hen that sits upon her Eggs, to make them fit to be hatched.
If any yet obiect, that the Spirit of God was said to moue vpon the waters, Gen. 1. 2. The answer is, that by that saying is signified no more then that the holy Ghost by his power and mouing did cherish and sustaine that indigested matter, as an Hen that sits vpon her Egges, to make them fit to bee hatched.
If any say that Gods suffers mutation in his knowledge, because he takes in the Apprehension of things present or to come, and is turned back to look upon things past, I answer, that though God be full of all knowledge of things past, present, and to come, yet he is not cast back to that which is past, nor stands pondering upon that which is present, nor by hoping is stretched towards that which is to come: because God sees all things with an eternal and unchangeable view as hath bin showed in the Doctrine of his Knowledge.
If any say that Gods suffers mutation in his knowledge, because hee takes in the Apprehension of things present or to come, and is turned backe to looke vpon things past, I answer, that though God be full of all knowledge of things past, present, and to come, yet he is not cast backe to that which is past, nor stands pondering vpon that which is present, nor by hoping is stretched towards that which is to come: because God sees all things with an eternall and vnchangeable view as hath bin shewed in the Doctrine of his Knowledge.