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A69028	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.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.; Byfield, Adoniram, d. 1660.	1626 (1626)	STC 4233.3; ESTC S113882	419,023	572

3. Yea thirdly this glory of God should swallow vp all the glory of men this very work of making Heauen and Earth should check vs for admiring and esteeming so much of the creature whatsoeuer since we haue such a perpetuall and surpassing cause of admiration of the Creator Acts 14. 16. 4. Since God made all things we should submit our selues to him and let him dispose of vs and all his creatures as he will he hath iust power in Heauen and earth to giue or take away or dispose at his owne pleasure Ier. 27. 5. 45. 3 4 5 6. 5. It should teach vs not to set our hearts too much vpon the world for that God that set vp this mighty frame of nothing can and will pull it all downe againe 6. It should breed in vs the feare of God and care of seruing him and obeying him that hath not onely supreame right vnto vs being his workemanship but soueraignty ouer all things Psal 119. 73. Psal 33. 8 9. 95. 6. all creatures else doe his will 7. It should teach vs in all straights and neede to flie to God for helpe as Dauid shewes our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord which hath made Heauen and Earth Psal 121. 2. 124. 8. 8. We should learne hence not to abuse the Creatures of God to ill ends seeing God hath assigned his Creatures to their right ends for his owne glory It is abominable to fight against God with his owne weapons Thirdly the Doctrine of the Creation of the World ought to be terrible to wicked men because God by his workes hath reuealed so much of his glory as they will be left without excuse Rom. 1. and besides hauing appointed them to certaine ends in which they haue corrupted themselues hee will destroy them as a Potter that sees his vessell will not be made fit dasheth it to peeces And besides hence they may know that God can want no meanes to destroy them seeing he hath such Armies of his owne creatures in Heauen and Earth which are all as his mighty ones and sanctified ones for his anger against them There is no way for them but one which is to meete the Lord betimes by Faith and true Repentance Amos 4. 13. Lastly this is very comfortable doctrine for the godly for from the Creation of the world they may gather 1. That God will not cast them off because they are the worke of his hands Iob 10. 3. 2. That all aduersaries shall be defeated whatsoeuer is prouided against them shall not prosper because God made the Smith that blowe●h in the Coales and he will suffer no creature of his to be turned against them Esay 54. 17. 3. That God is able to prouide for vs seeing the earth and heauens are his and all that is therein Psalme 146. 5. 6 24. 1. 4. That all the spirituall worke that belongs to our soules may bee effected hee that created the world and made vs good at the first can create the fruit of the lippes to bee peace and can create cleane hearts in vs Esay 57. 19. Psalme 51. 8. 5. That our bodies shall rise againe that God that could make all things of nothing can restore them out of the dust of the earth Thus of Creation in generall Now wee are in particular to consider what was made viz. Heauen and Earth Heauen By Heauen is ment all that part of the world which is aboue the Earth and so it is taken Genesis 2. 1. 24. 5. And so Heauen consists of three parts and euery parte beares the name of Heauen The first part next to vs is the Ayre and all that is betweene vs and the Moone so foules of the Ayre are called the foules of Heauen Gen. 1. 26. The second part is the Firmament in which are the Starres Sun and Moon Psal 19. 7. The third part is the Habitation of God and Angels the seate of the glory of God and his blessed one where the body of Christ now liues Marke 16. 19. and is called the third heauens 1 Cor. 12. 2. and this is the Heauen especially meant Gen. 11. for when there he saith God Created heauen and earth and the earth was without forme c. he notes that God vsed a twofold way of Creation some things he made immediately of nothing as the Heauen of the blessed some things he made of matter which was first made of nothing for out of that Chaos mentioned Gen. 2. did the Lord extract and forme all this visible world both the firmament and light and the elements and all creatures only spirits and the Heauen of the blessed hee made of no praeexi●●ing matter and that honour haue the soules of men which are immediately created of nothing First then we are to intreate of that Heauen where God in his glory Christ in his glorious body are and seeing by Heauen is meant al that is contained in it by Creation we are there to consider of the Angels too and both that Heauen and the Angels belong to the inuisible world and the rest to the visible Concerning that blessed Heauen wee are to wonder at the glory of the Lord in creating it if we consider 1. The names giuen to it It is called the Heauen of Heauens Deut. 10. 14. 1 King 8. 27. Psal 11● 16. The Temple of God Psal 11. 4. ●8 7. Paradise Luke 23. 42. The heauenly Ierusalem or Ierusalem that is aboue Gal. 4. 26. Heb. 12. 22. and in the same place Mount Sion The most holy place Hebrewes 10.9 Our fathers house Iohn 4. 2. The place of the Habitation of God and his holinesse Deut. 26. 15. Psal 33. 14. Abrahams bosome Luke 16. 22. The Citie of the Liuing God Heb. 12. 22. a Cittie hauing foundation whose Maker and builder is God Heb. 11. 10. our Countrie Heb. 11. 13. 14. 2. The substance of it which is conceiued to be of a marueilous excellent nature farre more perfect and subtile then the substance not onely of the Elements but of those visible heauens which diuers gather thus As any creature is higher then the earth so is the substance of it lesse grosse and materiall As the waters are thinner then the earth and the Ayre then the waters and the Element of fire according to the common opinion of Diuines and Philosophers purer then the Ayre and the Essence of the mighty Firmament yet more pure then the foure Elements as consisting of a fift Essence as they say in Schooles and accordingly we see creatures fitted to each of these places Fishes that cannot liue in the bowells of the earth liue in the waters and foules of a more spirituall being flie in the Ayre Now when we are ascended so high as the highest visible heauens then do our minds conceiue of that glorious place of the blessed made of a more pure Essence then any of these And though Diuines say that the sustance of these heauens must needs be corporeall and