A17384:2928
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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Secondly, we may hence gather a sign of such as are in the state of salvation actually. For if we love the brother-hood, we shall be saved, as the Apostle is peremptory, 1. John 3.14. and the more apparent will be the sign, if we love all the godly, and for godliness sake; both which, the word brother-hood imports.
Secondly, wee may hence gather a signe of such as are in the state of saluation actually. For if wee loue the brother-hood, wee shall bee saued, as the Apostle is peremptory, 1. Iohn 3.14. and the more apparant will bee the signe, if wee loue all the godly, and for godlines sake; both which, the word brother-hood imports.
Thus of the first doctrine.
Doct. 2. Secondly, I might hence observe also, that all the godly are brethren, and so they are in divers respects.
Doct. 2. Secondly, I might hence obserue also, that all the godly are brethren, and so they are in diuers respects.