A17384:1255
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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Sixthly, their number: they are a Nation.
Sixtly, their number: they are a Nation.
Seventhly, their acceptation with God: they are a peculiar people.
Seuenthly, their acceptation with God: they are a peculiar people.
First, for Election.
The Apostle, looking upon the words in Exodus 19.5, 6. and seeing that they described the happiness of Christians in this life, doth in the Fore-front put-to this privilege of their election, as the foundation of all the rest, and would have Christians much affected with the consideration of this prerogative.
The Apostle, looking vpon the words in Exodus 19.5, 6. and seeing that they described the happinesse of Christians in this life, doth in the Fore-front put-to this priuiledge of their election, as the foundation of all the rest, and would haue Christians much affected with the consideration of this prerogatiue.