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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. For Humiliation, and so first, to Image-mongers that will needs have God resembled by pictures, what do they less then change the glory of the Immutable God into the likeness of a mutable creature, Rom. 1. 23. secondly, for all men it should humble the best of us that think how glorious God is for Immutability, and yet we so mutable as nothing can satisfy us: which mutability as it fearfully appeared in our first Parents, so doth it break out in the disposition of all sorts of men: what fearful change do many men ⟨p. 109⟩make in Religion. Read of the Jews, Isa. 1. 21, 22. Of the Christians, Galat. 1. 6. & 3. 1. Thirdly this is a terrible doctrine for wicked men, for all that he hath willed and threatened, shall certainly come upon them; God cannot change: He is not as a man that he should repent, as Samuel told Saul.
1. For Humiliation, and so first, to Image-mongers that will needs haue God resembled by pictures, what doe they lesse then change the glory of the Immutable God into the likenesse of a mutable creature,