A69028:794
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 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.
Sol. Distinguish between Generation and Communication, 1and between Essence and Person: the Person begets and is begotten, but the Essence neither begets, nor is begotten, but only is communicated.
Sol. Distinguish betweene Generation and Communication, 1and betweene Essence and Person: the Person begets and is begotten, but the Essence neither begets, nor is begotten, but onely is communicated.
Sol. The Essence of God absolutely considered was not incarnate, 1but the Person of the Son: who though he had the whole divine Nature in him yet in respect of the manner of his subsisting did differ from the Father and holy Ghost.
Sol. The Essence of God absolutely considered was not incarnate, 1but the Person of the Sonne: who though he had the whole diuine Nature in him yet in respect of the manner of his subsisting did differ from the Father and holy Ghost.
