A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general o… › Verses 9, and 10. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priest…: Verses 9, and 10. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priest hood, an holy Nation…AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verses 9, and 10. But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priest…: Verses 9, and 10. But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priest hood, an holy Nation…

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Fourthly, if we set up the Lord to be our God to love him with all our heart, and to serve him, and in all things to show our selves desirous to please him, and to be resolved to please him, and his truth, and to his glory, &c. Deut. 26. Isaiah 44.1.5.

Fourthly, if we set vp the Lord to be our God to loue him with all our heart, and to serue him, and in all things to shew our selues desirous to please him, and to be resolued to please him, and his truth, and to his glory, &c. Deut. 26. Esay 44.1.5.

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Fifthly, if we confirm our selves in a resolution to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, nor to suffer our selves to be unequally yoked: but since God hath chosen us out of the world, to keep our selves from needless society with wicked men.

Fiftly, if we confirme our selues in a resolution to haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darknes, nor to suffer our selues to be vnequally yoaked: but since God hath chosen vs out of the world, to keepe our seluesse from needlesse society with wicked men.

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Sixthly, if we continue in the Word, and be patient in afflictions, and show contentations in all estates, as knowing, that it is our Fathers pleasure to give us a Kingdom, Luke 12.32. and that all shall work together for the best, Rom. 8.28. and that the very hairs of our heads are numbered,

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