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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.
1. He is a father in heaven, not an earthly father.
1. He is a father in heauen, not an earthly father.
2. He is a father almighty, he can do more for us then all the fathers in the world.
2. He is a father almighty, he can doe more for vs then all the fathers in the world.
3. He is an everlasting father, Isaiah 9. 6. our natural fathers dye, but our spiritual father lives for ever; and makes us live for ever too: for natural fathers can give but a temporal being to their children, but God gives us an eternal being; and therefore are we called the children of the Resurrection, because our very bodies must not perish, but be made to live for ever also. The son he always abides in the house, Luke 20. 36. John 8. 35. Rom. 8. 19. 21.
3. He is an euerlasting father, Esay 9. 6. our naturall fathers dye, but our spirituall father liues for euer; and makes vs liue for euer too: for naturall fathers can giue but a temporall being to their children, but God giues vs an eternall being; and therefore are we called the children of the Resurrection, because our very bodies must not perish, but be made to liue for euer also. The sonne he alwaies abides in the house,