A69028:837
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
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.
Thus for Information.
2. Since God is the father of Jesus Christ we should be instructed:
2. Since God is the father of Iesus Christ wee should bee instructed:
1. To acknowledge this Mystery, and though we have cause to be abased for the defect of our understanding herein, in that we cannot tell the fathers name, nor what is the name of his Son, Pro. 30▪ 4. yet we should confidently believe, as the very foundation of our Religion, that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God: upon the Rock of this confession is the Church built, Mat. 16. 16, &c. It is a glory Christ stands upon to be acknowledged in the glory of the only begotten Son of God, Joh. 1. 14. If we acknowledge the Son, we have the father, or else not, 1. Joh. 2. 23. Yea, this is an honour God stands upon to be glorified with one heart and one mouth of all his servants, even as the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. 15. 6.
1. To acknowledge this Mystery, and though wee haue cause to be abased for the defect of our vnderstanding heerein, in that we cannot tell the fathers name, nor what is the name of his Son,