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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.
A Person is an understanding substance, individual, and incommunicable, which is not sustained in any other, or by any other. It is an understanding substance, & so it excludes plants and beasts, which are no persons though they be substances, and it is not sustained in any other, and so excludes the humane nature of Christ, which is therefore not a Person, because it subsists in the Divine Nature, and it is incommunicable, to distinguish it from the Essence, which is communicated to all the Persons.
A Person is an vnderstanding substance, indiuiduall, and incommunicable, which is not sustained in any other, or by any other. It is an vnderstanding substance, & so it excludes plants and beasts, which are no persons though they be substances, and it is not sustained in any other, and so excludes the humane nature of Christ, which is therefore not a Person, because it subsists in the Diuine Nature, and it is incommunicable, to distinguish it from the Essence, which is communicated to all the Persons.
Four things are common to each Person in the Trinity. First, Truth, and so each Person is the true God, having all the properties of God, and doing all the actions of God, and receiving all the worship of God.
Foure things are common to each Person in the Trinitie. First, Truth, and so each Person is the true God, hauing all the properties of God, and doing all the actions of God, and receiuing all the worship of God.
Secondly, Mutual Immeation or Immanency, as they call it, which the Grecians call, [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew], by which none of the Persons are separate from the Divine Essence, but subsist in it, and so all meet in the Essence.
Secondly, Mutuall Immeation or Immanencie, as they call it, which the Grecians call, & , by which none of the Persons are separate from the Diuine Essence, but subsist in it, and so all meet in the Essence.