A69028:853

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. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: but…: Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: but the operations of t…THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue in God. › Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: but…: Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: but the operations of t…

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And this term of Father is given to these works of God, not unfitly for the resemblance they have to the relation between a Father and Son in Nature: for,

And this terme of Father is giuen to these workes of God, not vnfitly for the resemblance they haue to the relation betweene a Father and Son in Nature: for,

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1. God gives us a spiritual being, making us a soul or spiritual substance: for as we call them Fathers, because we have our bodies from them, so God is more fitly called a Father, because we have our spirits from him.

1. God giues vs a spirituall being, making vs a soule or spirituall substance: for as we call them Fathers, because we haue our bodies from them, so God is more fitly called a Father, because we haue our spirits from him.

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2. God renews our natures, and begets them to be like his Nature: for being regenerated we partake of the divine nature, being made to live Gods nature in holiness and righteousness, and he may well be called a Father that begets that which is like to himself: besides, by Faith we put on Jesus Christ, Gal. 3. 26. 27.

2. God renewes our natures, and begets them to bee like his Nature: for being regenerated we partake of the diuine nature, being made to liue Gods nature in holines and righteousnes, and he may well be called a Father that begets that which is like to himselfe: besides, by Faith we put on Iesus Christ, Gal. 3. 26. 27

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622

Place

London

Printer

G.M.

Bookseller

Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith

Year

1626

Size

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p.

Words

212,467

Catalogue

STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

Text

EEBO-TCP A69028

Passages

2,700

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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