A Brief Exposition of the Apostles Creed; According to Bishop Pearson, in a New Method, by Way of Paraphrase and Annotation (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1726 Excerpt: ... A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE 9tpostk0 Creets. ARTICLE I. / believe in GOD, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth: 3 bclfeDf. AL T H O' these things which I am ready to affirm, be not apparent to my Sense, a) so that I cannot say I see them: Altho' they be not evident to my Understanding of themselves, (b) nor appear unto me true by the vertue of any Natural and Necefiary Cause c) i so that I cannot say I have any proper B Knowledge, Knowledge, or Science, of them: Yet, since they are certainly contain'd in the Scriptures, the Writings of the blessed Apostles and Prophets; since those Apostles and Prophets were endu'd with Miraculous Power from above, and immediately inspir'd by the Holy Ghost, and consequently, what they deliver'd was not the Word of Man, but of G O D himself; since G O D is of that universal Knowledge and infinite Wisdom, that 'tis impossible he should be deceiv'd, of that indefectible Holiness, and transcendent Rectitude, that it is not imaginable He should intend to deceive any Man 5 and consequently, what He hath delivered for a Truth must be necessarily and infallibly true; I readily and steadfastly assent to them (d), as most certain Truths, and am as fully and absolutely, and more concerningly, perswaded of them, than of any thing I see, or know. And because that GOD, who hath revealed them, hath done it not for my Benefit alone, but for the Advantage of others, nor for that only, but also for the manifestation of his own Glory; since, for those Ends, He hath commanded me to profess them( ), and hath promis'd an Eternal Reward upon my Profession of them; since every particular Person is to expect the Justification of himself, and the Salvation of his Soul, upon the condition of his own Faith j as with a certain and full p...