A17385:1258
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.
For opening of this I mist show it by the eye of man three ways.1 By sight we know things first mediately, as by a glass expressing the proportion of the thing we see, though we see not the thing it self. Secondly, by the presence of the thing in the eye; or rather of the likeness, though the thing it self be not in the eye, as when we look upon a man some what distant from ⟨p. 100⟩us. Thirdly, when the thing seen is present in the essence of it in the very eye, so the light is in the eye of man. Now by the first way the Saints see God on earth,2 that is to say, by means, as by a looking glass, not face to face. By the second, that is by some sign or likeness of Gods presence, the Angels did see God by creation. By the third, way, that is by the lightsome presence of the glorious essence of God, is God seen of the Angels face to face, as they are confirmed in Christ,3 and so also do the blessed souls see God.
For opening of this I mist shew it by the eye of man three waies.1 By sight we know things first mediately, as by a glasse expressing the proportion of the thing we see, though we see not the thing it selfe. Secondly, by the presence of the thing in the eye; or rather of the likenesse, though the thing it selfe be not in the eye, as when we look upon a man some what distant from