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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.
Now that there are three Persons, and no more nor fewer, is proved by places more obscure or more express.
Now that there are three Persons, and no more nor fewer, is proued by places more obscure or more expresse.
The Trinity hath been observed in such places as these, Isaiah 6. 3. where the Angels say thrice Holy; and so where JEHOVAH is three times repeated, Numbers 6. 23. Isaiah 33. 22.
The Trinitie hath beene obserued in such places as these, Esay 6. 3. where the Angells say thrice Holy; and so where IEHOVAH is three times repeated, Numbers 6. 23. Esay 33. 22.
But the most express places are in the New Testament. A manifest revelation of the Trinity was in the Baptism of ⟨p. 117⟩Christ. The Father speaking from heaven, the Son standing in the River, the Holy Ghost descending like a Dove. Matth. 3. 16. 17. and so in the Institution of Baptism, we are to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. And Joh. 14. 16. 17. I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter the Spirit of truth; and the 1. Joh. 5. 9. There are three in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit. And the like evidence is in these places,