A17385:1308
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 fifth thing to be observed is, that he saith, gird up, and not cast off, importing, that in this life, even in the godly,§5 there is not a perfect deliverance from the inward strife with hinderances that arise from our corrupt nature: Those garments they have still, but they are girded up, which is true of the most of the impediments mentioned before.
The fift thing to be observed is, that he saith, gird up, and not cast off, importing, that in this life, even in the godly,§5 there is not a perfect deliverance from the inward strife with hinderances that arise from our corrupt nature: Those garments they have still, but they are girded up, which is true of the most of the impediments mentioned before.
The Use is for great reproof of our incredible slackness herein the most1 ⟨p. 104⟩of us, who know not of any lets in our mind; never observe ignorance, carnal reason, security, love of earthly things, worldly sorrow, hypocrisy, precipitation, discouragement, dullness, and evil thoughts. Those of us that do discern them, how weak are our hearts? how do we trifle? we feel them not to be a burden: we resist them not in the beginning. How justly might God leave us to a very reprobate mind for our slackness herein even of knowledge? How justly might we be left to our selves, and so be turned out of the way, and there left either never to return, or not without unspeakable horror of conscience.
The Use is for great reproofe of our incredible slacknesse herein the most1 ⟨p. 104⟩