A17385:1297
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.
And when he saith not barely, gird up your minds, but the loins of the mind, it importeth two things. For the loins in the mind signify 1. heaviness, dullness: so the word used 2 Chron. 10.10. 2. concupiscence: these must especially be girded hard; yea all the rest must be girded upon these.
And when hee saith not barely, gird up your minds, but the loines of the minde, it importeth two things. For the loines in the minde signifie 1. heavinesse, dulnesse: so the word used 2 Chron. 10.10. 2. concupiscence: these must especially be girded hard; yea all the rest must be girded upon these.
Thirdly, we should gird up our minds for divers reasons.§3 1. Because the mind not attended will else run into a secret frame of evil cogitations, or stand still in emptiness being not wound up.1 2. Because that which is halting may be turned out of the way, Heb. 12.13. 3. Because the mind in pollution, as it is most secret, so it is most loathsome, Tit. 1.15. Eph. 2.3. 4. Because else through custom we may come to a reprobate mind, Rom. 1. 5. Lastly, because the keeping of our minds is the keeping of our souls, Prov. 9.8.