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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
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Thirdly, the end why the world was made, was the glory of God, Prou. 16. •4. (that is) that the world might be a Glass or Theatre of divine virtues, and a Temple in which God would set forth, and teach, and make known to man his power, wisdom and goodness, Rom. 1. not that God by the Creation doth get to himself any glory, seeing he abounds in glory himself, so unmeasurably, as nothing can be added to it or taken from it: but only hereby he communicates his glory to the Creature, and gave the creatures occasion to admire and commend his glory: for by the Creation God makes himself visible as it were to the Creatures that are reasonable: for though the Essence of God be invisible, yet by the Creation his power or Attributes are set out to be seen and read in that great Book of nature: and if any men see little of God in this mighty Frame of his Works, it is not because God hath declared himself therein but obscurely, but because we are perverse and blockish, and full of native darkness, by reason of sin, and the effects of sin in us.
Thirdly, the end why the world was made, was the glory of God, Prou. 16. •4. (that is) that the world might bee a Glasse or Theatre of diuine vertues, and a Temple in which God would set forth, and teach, and make knowne to man his power, wisdome and goodnesse, Rom. 1. not that God by the Creation doth get to himselfe any glory, seeing he abounds in glory himselfe, so vnmeasurably, as nothing can bee added to it or taken from it: but onely hereby he communicates his glory to the Creature, and gaue the creatures occasion to admire and commend his glory: for by the Creation God makes himselfe visible as it were to the Creatures that are reasonable: for though the Essence of God be inuisible, yet by the Creation his power or Attributes are set out to be seene and read in that great Booke of nature: and if any men see little of God in this mighty Frame of his Workes, it is not because God hath declared himselfe therein but obscurely, but because we are peruerse and blockish, and full of natiue darkenesse, by reason of sinne, and the effects of sinne in vs.