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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.
The proofs for the Trinity are gathered, both out of the Old and New Testament, and so they either prove there were more Persons then One, or else expressly that there were Three Persons.
The proofes for the Trinity are gathered, both out of the Old and New Testament, and so they either prooue there were more Persons then One, or else expresly that there were Three Persons.
That there are more Persons then One is proved, by the term ELOHIM, which is uttered in the plural number, as if it should sound Gods: as Gen. 1. 1. In the beginning Gods or ELOHIM created Heaven and Earth: Created is in the singular number, to show the unity of the Essence, and ELOHIM in the plural, to show the Trinity of the Persons: so Gen. 1. 26. Let us make man in our Likeness, Let us, shows more Persons, and likeness being in the singular number shows unity of Essence. And verse 2. besides the Lord there is mentioned the Spirit of the Lord sitting upon the waters Josh. ult. 19. Ye cannot serve the Lord because he is ELOHIM sancti, holy Gods. And Jeremiah 10. 10. The Lord is the living Gods or ELOHIM, and King everlasting. Hos. 1. 7. I will save them in the Lord their God. Gen. 19. 24. The Lord reigned from the Lord fire and brimstone. Exod. 23. 20. 21. The The Lord sends his Angel whose name is JEHOVAH. Dan. 9. 19. Hear oh Lord our God for the Lords sake, Psa. 110. 1. The Lord said to my Lord sit thou at my right hand,