A17385:1418
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.
Verse 14. &c. As obedient children not fashioning your selves unto the former lusts of your ignorance.
Hitherto of the three things to which the Apostle exhorts. The reasons follow, whereof the first is contained in these verses, and it is taken from the image of God, in which Gods children ought to resemble him: they should strive against all inward evils, and refrain all the excesses of life, and address themselves with all care and confidence to the provision of a better life, because they are begotten again unto God, and it is required of them that they should be holy as he is holy.
HItherto of the three things to which the Apostle exhorts. The reasons follow, whereof the first is contained in these verses, and it is taken from the image of God, in which Gods children ought to resemble him: they should strive against all inward evils, and refraine all the excesses of life, and addresse themselves with all care and confidence to the provision of a better life, because they are begotten again unto God, and it is required of them that they should be holy as he is holy.
This reason is both propounded and expounded: propounded in these words, as obedient children: It is expounded two ways, 1. By description, 2. By proof or testimony. It is described negatively and affirmatively: by negation he shows what we should shun, viz. fashioning your selves according to the lusts of your former ignorance: Affirmatively he sets it out by showing, 1. the pattern to be imitated: 2. and the manner of our imitation. The pattern is the holiness of him that called us: The manner is to be holy in all manner of conversation. Thus of the description. For the proof 2. things are to be considered. 1. Whence the proof is fetched, n these word, As it is written. 2. What is alleged in these words, Be ye holy as I am holy.