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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.
Fourthly, Distinction, so as every Person is distinguished from the other Persons, so as the Father is not the Son nor Holy Ghost, nor the Son the Father or Holy Ghost, nor the Holy Ghost the Father and the Sonne.
Fourthly, Distinction, so as euerie Person is distinguished from the other Persons, so as the Father is not the Sonne nor Holy Ghost, nor the Sonne the Father or Holy Ghost, nor the Holy Ghost the Father and the Sonne.
For the first of these things in common which is Truth, so as each Person is the true God; It needs not much explanation for the sense: for under that Head three things are given to each Person in common. First, the properties of the God-head, so as each Person is Eternal, Infinite, Immutable, in life, knowledge, holiness and glory: and so Secondly, the Actions of the Deity are common to every Person, according to that Rule in School: Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa: The works of the Trinity, that issue outward, are undivided: So the Father creates, the Son creates, and the Holy Ghost ⟨p. 119⟩creates: as there is one work, so there is but one worker, which is God in three Persons. To make man in Gods Image, is common to all three Persons, Let us make man, &c. Gen. 1. 26. soe John 5. 19. what the Father doth, the Son doth the same; and in many other places. And as they agree in working, so do they in worship, all divine worship doth equally belong to each Person.
For the first of these things in common which is Truth, so as each Person is the true God; It needes not much explanation for the sense: for vnder that Head three things are giuen to each Person in common. First, the properties of the God-head, so as each Person is Eternall, Infinite, Immutable, in life, knowledge, holinesse and glorie: and so Secondly, the Actions of the Deity are common to euery Person, according to that Rule in Schoole: Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indiuisa: The workes of the Trinitie, that issue outward, are vndiuided: So the Father creates, the Sonne creates, and the Holy Ghost