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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 1 › I Believe in God. › Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne be all one, then th…: Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne be all one, then the Father was incarna…THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue in God. › Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, then th…: Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, then the Father was incarna…

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Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

110. Object.10. Obiect.

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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.

1Sol.

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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, 1then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, 1then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: 1but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.

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Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.