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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.
For the second, which is the mutual seating or meeting of all the three Persons in the same Essence, so as they are one in another, divers Scriptures prove: so Christ saith, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, John 14. 10. and this must needs be so, because the essence of God is infinite, and therefore every person possessing it, it must needs follow, that wheresoever one is, there the other are also, and that one is in another: so as there can be no place, or thing, where one of them is, but there the other are also. Excellent is that saying of that Father, concerning the three Persons in the Trinity. Singula sunt in Singulis, &c. Each are in each other, and all in each, and each in all, and all in all, and one all. He that seeth this in part, darkly, as in a glass, let him rejoice that he knows God, and as God let him honour him and give him thanks. He that seeth it nor, let him tend to see it by godliness, and not to calumniate by blindness, for God is one, and yet there is a Trinity, &c. Thus He.
For the second, which is the mutuall seating or meeting of all the three Persons in the same Essence, so as they are one in another, diuers Scriptures proue: so Christ saith, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, Iohn 14. 10. and this must needs be so, because the essence of God is infinite, and therefore euery person possessing it, it must needs follow, that wheresoeuer one is, there the other are also, and that one is in another: so as there can bee no place, or thing, where one of them is, but there the other are also. Excellent is that saying of that Father, concerning the three Persons in the Trinity. Singula sunt in Singulis, &c. Each are in each other, and all in each, and each in all, and all in all, and one all. Hee that seeth this in parte, darkely, as in a glasse, let him reioyce that hee knowes God, and as God let him honour him and giue him thankes. He that seeth it nor, let him tend to see it by godlinesse, and not to calumniate by blindnesse, for God is one, and yet there is a Trinity, &c. Thus Hee.