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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 object that God threatened to destroy the Ninevites, and that Hezekiah should die, and yet he did not accomplish it, and that therefore Gods Word and will is mutable: I answer, that those threatenings or predictions were not absolute but with condition or respect, and therefore no change in Gods will. Nineveh shall be destroyed, if respect be had to their merits, and unless they repent: Now God is not bound always to express the condition of his Threatenings, and beside, all legal threatenings had in perpetual doctrine of them, the condition of repentance annexed: The condition therefore being performed by the Ninevites, God destroys them not, yet without change in his will, it being but a conditional will. And for Hezekiah he must die, if we respect second causes, yet in respect of Gods eternal purpose, fifteen years must be added: Now this Threatening of death, being a Threatening of Trial, and containing true grounds of it in Natural causes, shows neither dissimulation nor mutation in God.
If any obiect that God threatned to destroy the Niniuites, and that Hezekiah should die, and yet hee did not accomplish it, and that therefore Gods Word and will is mutable: I answer, that those threatnings or predictions were not absolute but with condition or respect, and therefore no change in Gods will. Niniueh shall be destroyed, if respect bee had to their merits, and vnlesse they repent: Now God is not bound alwaies to expresse the condition of his Threatnings, and beside, all legall threatnings had in perpetuall doctrine of them, the condi•ion of repentance annexed: The condition therefore being performed by the Niniuites, God destroyes them not, yet without change in his will, it being but a conditionall will. And for Hezekiah he must die, if we respect second causes, yet in respect of Gods eternall purpose, fifteene yeeres must bee added: Now this Threatning of death, being a Threatning of Tryall, and containing true grounds of it in Naturall causes, shewes neither dissimulation nor mutation in God.