A17385:1403
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.
From the manner of the propounding of the words divers things may be noted.
1. That the Christians happiness in hope is better than the carnal mans felicity present: They must trust upon the grace to be brought; yea so a• they trust not in any thing el•e. For they are sure to have their happiness, and to enjoy it when they have it: so are not carnal men of any thing they hold, as we may see by experience. Is it not better for a poor man to have the hope of heaven when h• dies, then to be as some great men have been, which are now confounded and mined?
1. That the Christians happinesse in hope is better than the carnall mans felicity present: They must trust upon the grace to be brought; yea so a• they trust not in any thing el•e. For they are sure to have their happinesse, and to enjoy it when they have it: so are not carnall men of any thing they hold, as we may see by experience. Is it not better for a poore man to have the hope of heaven when h• dies, then to be as some great men have been, which are now co•founded and mined?
2. God hath thought it meet to defer the glory of heaven: it is to be brought, it is not brought already.
2. God hath thought it meet to deferre the glory of heaven: it is to be brought, it is not brought already.