A17385:1300
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.
1. By confessing and complaining of them (I mean of these secret impediments) unto God; one way to restrain them is to confess them.
1. By confessing and complaining of them (I meane of these secret impediments) unto God; one way to restraine them is to confesse them.
2. By inflaming the love of God in our minds. For if we could love God with all our minds, we were safe from all impediments.
2. By inflaming the love of God in our minds. For if wee could love God with all our minds, we were safe from all impediments.
3. We must be sure we be renewed in our minds. For the old mind will never be girded up; we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds, that is, in our carnal reason: for that like an old beldam is the mother and nurse of all the rest, Eph. 4.23.
3. We must be sure we be renewed in our minds. For the old minde will never be girded up; we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds, that is, in our carnall reason: for that like an old belldam is the mother and nurse of all the rest, Eph. 4.23.