A17384:1284
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, 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, Math. 10. & that nothing can be laid to our charge to condemn us, Rom. 8.33. and that God will never cast away his people, whom before he knew, Rom. 11.2. because his foundation remaineth sure, and he knoweth, who are his, 2. Tim. 2.19.
Sixtly, if we continue in the Word, and bee patient in afflictions, and shew contentations in all estates, as knowing, that it is our Fathers pleasure to giue vs a Kingdome, Luke 12.32. and that all shall worke together for the best, Rom. 8.28. and that the very haires of our heads are numbred, Math. 10. & that nothing can be laid to our charge to condemne vs, Rom. 8.33. and that God will neuer cast away his people, whom before he knew, Rom. 11.2. because his foundation remaineth sure, and hee knoweth, who are his, 2. Tim. 2.19.