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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.
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.
The Uses follow.
The Vses follow.
1. Hereby is condemned the horrible Idolatry of the Nations in bringing in that Poluthritis, or multitude of Gods: 1for as the former doctrine, that God is a Spirit, doth condemn ⟨p. 112⟩Image-mongers that resemble him, that is incorporeal by outward and bodily shapes: so doth this of the Unity of his essence show the lamentable Idolatry of the Gentiles, and gives us all cause from our hearts to bless God that hath rescued our understandings from those fearful: blasphemies and misconceivings of Pagans and Heretics, unto the only acknowledgement of one true God.