A17385:1386
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 grace which is to be brought unto you.
Grace sometimes signifies the Gospel,1 Tit. 2.11. sometimes the favour of God in Christ, so in the salutations of the Epistle: sometimes an external calling or function so Paul calls his Apostleship a grace, Rom. 1.16. sometimes the gifts of the holy Ghost, so usually: lastly, sometimes the glory of heaven, so here.
Grace sometimes signifies the Gospell,1 Tit. 2.11. sometimes the favour of God in Christ, so in the salutations of the Epistle: sometimes an externall calling or function so Paul calls his Apostleship a grace, Rom. 1.16. sometimes the gifts of the holy Ghost, so usually: lastly, sometimes the glory of heaven, so here.
- 1What grace signifies in the several […] of it.What grace signifies in the severall 〈…〉 of it.
It is true, that some read it, the grace that is brought in the revelation of Jesus Christ: and so it means that true grace which in this world the Elect do