A17385:1114
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.
3. Because we have all their revelations that could profit us in any special measure, we have them I say left upon record, & written for our learning.
3. Because we have all their revelations that could profit us in any speciall measure, we have them I say left upon record, & written for our learning.
4. Neither are we altogether without revelations,1 that for the riches of them answer the full value of their revelations. For to omit, that God hath revealed his Son in the flesh in these latter ages of the world, which was a greater show then was ever made in heaven or in earth: to omit this; I say,
4. Neither are wee altogether without revelations,1 that for the riches of them answer the full value of their revelations. For to omit, that God hath revealed his Sonne in the flesh in these latter ages of the world, which was a greater shew then was ever made in heaven or in earth: to omit this; I say,
- 1We have fix sorts of revelations under the Gospel.We have fix sorts of revelations under the Gospell.
1. In the doctrine of the Gospel now, there are divers riches, mines,1