A17385:121
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.
7. A stranger or traveller, so thinks of his travail in the day, that he looks for rest at night, and so takes his rest at night, as he resolves to travail again in the morning: so should we be minded: In prosperity to provide for adversity, and in adversity to hope for prosperity again, as assured, that man abideth in no certain stay here.
7. A stranger or traveller, so thinkes of his travai•e in the day, that hee looks for rest at night, and so takes his rest at night, as he resolves to travaile againe in the morning: so should we be minded: In prosperity to provide for adversity, and in adversity to hope for prosperity againe, as assured, that man abideth in no certaine stay here.
8. A stranger never measures his own worth, by what he finds in the way, but by what he shall possess when he comes home:1 so should a Christian do, he should live by faith, and not by sight: It matters not, what the world thinks of him, his greatness is in the kingdom of heaven.
8. A stranger never measures his owne worth, by what he findes in the way, but by what he shall possesse when hee comes home:1 so should a Christian doe, he should live by faith, and not by sight: It matters not, what the world thinkes of him, his greatnesse is in the kingdome of heaven.