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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.
Nor is God one by aggregation, or consent, or kind, or sort, but he is one in number. By aggregation a whole heard of cattle is said to be one, by consent many friends are one: by kind men and beasts are one, for they are living creatures. By sort, all men are one, because they have all one Nature, and are one sort of creatures: but God is one, none of these ways, but in number. And yet to say God is one in number is not enough, unless we add absolutely one: for Peter the Apostle is one man, though there be many other men, but he is not a man, so as there is none but he; whereas God is not Unus only, but he is Unicus also, he is one and but one.
Nor is God one by aggregation, or consent, or kinde, or sort, but he is one in number. By aggregation a whole heard of cattell is said to be one, by consent many friends are one: by kinde men and beasts are one, for they are liuing creatures. By sort, all men are one, because they haue all one Nature, and are one sort of creatures: but God is one, none of these waies, but in number. And yet to say God is one in number is not enough, vnlesse we adde absolutely one: for Peter the Apostle is one man, though there be many other men, but hee is not a man, so as there is none but he; whereas God is not Ʋnus onely, but he is Vnicus also, he is one and but one.
That there is but one God these Scriptures show, Deut. 4 35. & 39. & 6. 4. & 32. 39. 1. Cor. 8. 4. Concerning therefore meat sacrificed unto Idols, we know that an Idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
That there is but one God these Scriptures shew, Deut. 4 35. & 39. & 6. 4. & 32. 39. 1. Cor. 8. 4. Concerning therefore meate sacrificed vnto Idols, we know that an Idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.