A17385:104
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St.…A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St.…
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St. Peter Wherein are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very useful application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabetical table, not formerly published.A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St. Peter VVherin are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very usefull application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabeticall table, not formerly published.
London: printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young, 1637
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Others think, they were Gentiles converted to the Jewish Religion,1 and so they take strangers and Proselytes to be all one; and to such Peter preached Acts 2. and converted many of them, and they think he writes to them now.
Others thinke, they were Gentiles converted to the Jewish Religion,1 and so they take strangers and Proselites to be all one; and to such Peter preached Acts 2. and converted many of them, and they thinke he writes to them now.
- 1Bede. Gl•ss: Hemming.Beda. Gl•ss: Heming.
Others think, that this Epistle is so written to the Jews, as it is intended also for those elect Gentiles in those parts,1 because he saith Chap. 2.10. that these people were not in times past a people, nor under mercy, but now were the people of God, and had obtained mercy: which words do not so fitly agree to the Jews, and so all the Elect of God are strangers in this world, and so the word is evidently used, Chap. 2.12. and I think it is to be taken in this last sense.
Others thinke, that this Epistle is so written to the Jewes, as it is intended also for those elect Gentiles in those parts,1 because he saith Chap. 2.10. that these people were not in times past a people, nor under mercy, but now were the people of God, and had obtained mercy: which words doe not so fitly agree to the Jewes, and so all the Elect of God are strangers in this world, and so the word is evidently used, Chap. 2.12. and I thinke it is to be taken in this last sense.