A17385:1326
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. From the nature of it: It is a paganish sin, a lust of the Gentiles, 1 Pet. 4.3. yea it is a brutish sin, it transforms a man into a beast: a work of the flesh, yea one of the worst, and therefore set in the last place, Gal. 5.21. a work of darkness, yea it is dishonesty, Rom. 13.13.
1. From the nature of it: It is a paganish sin, a lust of the Gentiles, 1 Pet. 4.3. yea it is a brutish sin, it transformes a man into a beast: a work of the flesh, yea one of the worst, and therefore set in the last place, Gal. 5.21. a work of darknesse, yea it is dishonesty, Rom. 13.13.
2. From the time, 1. Of committing it, they were wont to be drunk in the night, 1 Thes. 5.7. as they commit whoredom, so were they ashamed of it. 2. Of forsaking it: the night is past, the day is at hand, Rom. 13.11, 12.
2. Frō the time, 1. Of committing it, they were wont to be drunk in the night, 1 Thes. 5.7. as they commit whoredome, so were they ashamed of it. 2. Of forsaking it: the night is past, the day is at hand,