A17385:1296
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.
The twelve inward lets are these: 1. Ignorance, a veil, Isaiah 25.8. it hinders, Eph. 4.17. 2. Carnal reason, 2 Cor. 2.18. 3. […] thoughts, or contemplative wickedness, I•r. 4.14. Gen. 6. & 8. 4. Security, mindlessness, incogitancy, which shows it self either by not heeding, or by not remembering, or by not resolving, or applying, or practising. 5. Love of the world: It is not much business, or wealth, or many occasions; but the love men have to the world, that hinders them. Cares of life. 6. Troubles of mind: disquietness of mind, worldly or causeless sorrows, impatience, when mens uncircumcised minds will not bear the punishment of their sins. These hinder assurance, society, labour of godliness, L•v. 26.41. see the phrases used Prov. 15.15. Eccl. 2.23. 7. Fearfulness and doubts, fear of this trouble, and that disgrace, or difficulty, or ill success, &c. Jer. 1.17. Rev. 21.8. ⟨p. 103⟩8. Hypocrisy: a double heart, a heart and a heart, allowance of distractions, &c&c This frustrates all for the present, and angers God. 9. Precipitation of mind, when mens haste is in them, as the Hebrew phrase is, Job 20.2. Thus David said in excessumentis: it is translated, in his haste, I am cast out of thy sight: suddenness, rashness, adventurousness is hereby meant, Prov. 15.28. This hinders, 1. soundness of understanding, by exposing to tentation. 2. by leading out of the race. 10. Hardness of mind, opposed to fearing always, Prov. 28.14. unteachableness: the difficulty that is in men to be persuaded, or moved. 11. Discouragement,