A17384:2683
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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The will of God is diversly accepted in Scriptures: for, though God's will indeed be but one, yet for our infirmities sake, it is considered of with distinction: and so it is either personal, or essential. There is a will of God that is personal, restrained to some of the persons: so, the Father wills the obedience and death of the Son, and Christ obeys that will of his Father, John 6.38, 39▪ 40. Mat. 26.39, 42. But it is the essential will of God here meant: the former is the will of God ad intra; and this, the will of God ad extra, as they say in schools.
The will of God is diuersly accepted in Scriptures: for, though God's will indeed bee but one, yet for our infirmities sake, it is considered of with distinction: and so it is either personall, or essentiall. There is a will of God that is personall, restrained to some of the persons: so, the Father wils the obedience and death of the Sonne, and Christ obeies that will of his Father, Iohn 6.38, 39▪ 40. Mat. 26.39, 42. But it is the essentiall will of God heer meant: the former is the will of God ad intra; and this, the will of God ad extra, as they say in schools.
The essential will of God is taken sometimes for the faculty of willing; sometimes, for the act of willing; sometimes, for the thing willed; and sometimes, for the sign by which that will is declared, as, his Word is his will. So here, by his essential will, God wills both good and evil. Good ⟨p. 632⟩is the object of God's will properly, and of it self: Evil is the object of the will of God, but only under some respect of good. Evil is either of punishment, or of sin. Evil of punishment GOD wills, and is the Author of,