A17385:1073
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.
4 Now in the last place, the wise observe time, and thus they observe time necessarily, or arbitrarily. Necessarily they observe the seasons and opportunities of Gods grace, and so not to observe time is a great offence. Jer. 8.7. Luke 9. Mat. 16.3. Arbitrary, they enquire after time, as the circumstance of some great things, wherein there appeareth some glory of God, and good to the soul. Thus the Prophets here enquire about the time of Gods manifestation of the great grace he promised to the Church.
4 Now in the last place, the wise observe time, and thus they observe time necessarily, or arbitrarily. Necessarily they observe the seasons and opportunities of Gods grace, and so not to observe time is a great offence. Ier. 8.7. Luke 9. Mat. 16.3. Arbitrary, they enquire after time, as the circumstance of some great things, wherein there appeareth some glory of God, and good to the soule. Thus the Prophets here enquire about the time of Gods manifestation of the great grace he promised to the Church.
Three things may be noted out of these words.
1 That the times and seasons of all things are known unto God: else the Prophets would not have searched, but that it was a received principle that all the times of all things are set and known to God.