A17385:1339
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.
Trust perfectly on the grace which is to be brought unto you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Trust perfectly on the grace which is to be brought unto you in the revelation of Iesus Christ.
The third thing he exhorts unto is hope, and trust in God, which is amplified by the manner and measure, trust perfectly: and secondly, by the object, viz. the grace which is to be brought at the revelation of Christ: which is forgiveness of all sins, and eternal salvation of our souls, which is called the hope of eternall•life, Tit. 1.2.
The third thing he exhorts unto is hope, and trust in God, which is amplified by the manner and measure, trust perfectly: and secondly, by the object, viz. the grace which is to be brought at the revelation of Christ: which is forgivenesse of all sinnes, and eternall salvation of our soules, which is called the hope of eternall•life, Tit. 1.2.
Hope it self is one of the three principal graces: Faith, Hope, and Charity comprehends the substance of all holiness; but of hope in it self, I have considered of it in the notes upon the third verse: it is the manner, and the object is here to be considered. But first I note briefly some things from the coherence, in that he first requireth girding up of the mind, and sobriety of life, and then adds the perfection of our hope in God for salvation; we may observe,