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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.
Is God a Spirit, then these Uses will follow.
Is God a Spirit, then these Vses will follow.
1. That we should conceive nothing bodily or terrene concerning 1God; when we think of God we must not imagine of him any bodily form, for that is to make an Idol.
1. That we should conceiue nothing bodily or terrene concerning 1God; when wee thinke of God wee must not imagine of him any bodily forme, for that is to make an Idoll.
- 1Uses.Vses.
2. We must hence learn to check and curb that natural desire in our corrupt hearts to have God visible: we should be ashamed of that secret rebellion of our hearts, that are often after a close manner unquiet and discontented, because we do not see our God we serve: for God being a spiritual substance must needs be invisible, and altogether imperceptible by any senses: he could not be a true ⟨p. 111⟩GOD, if senses might perceive him.
2. Wee must hence learne to checke and curbe that naturall desire in our corrupt hearts to haue God visible: we should be ashamed of that secret rebellion of our hearts, that are often after a close manner vnquiet and discontented, because we doe not see our God we serue: for God being a spirituall substance must needs be inuisible, and altogether imperceptible by any senses: hee could not bee a true