A69028:789
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.
London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626
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.
Sol. The being of the Father notes the being of his Person not of his Essence, and so three Beings are but three Persons 1subsisting in one Essence: As the light of the Sun, and the light of the Moon, and the light of the Air, in substance are one and the same light, and yet three distinct lights; the light of the Sun being of it self, the light of the Moon from the Sun, and the light of the Air from them both.
Sol. The being of the Father notes the being of his Person not of his Essence, and so three Beings are but three Persons 1subsisting in one Essence: As the light of the Sun, and the light of the Moone, and the light of the Ayre, in substance are one and the same light, and yet three distinct lights; the light of the Sun being of it selfe, the light of the Moone from the Sun, and the light of the Ayre from them both.
Sol. The Son and holy Ghost had the beginning of their Persons from the Father, but their Essence they had of themselves, 1as being common to all three Persons, so as every Person is [Greek or Hebrew], God of himself.
Sol. The Sonne and holy Ghost had the beginning of their Persons from the Father, but their Essence they had of themselues, 1as being common to all three Persons, so as euery Person is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, God of himselfe.
Sol. Three and one if they be things essentially and really 1divided make four, but one and the same thing may have divers relations or manners of being which are distinct one from another.
Sol. Three and one if they bee things essentially and really 1diuided make foure, but one and the same thing may haue diuers relations or manners of being which are distinct one from another.
