A17385:1447
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.
For the first. By lusts here the Apostle
1. May mean those gross sins, which before calling, while they were wicked, some of them lived in, such as were whoredom, drunkenness, covetousness, railings, &c. For these and such as these in the fourth Chapter he calleth lusts of the Gentiles, and such were some of them, 1 Cor. 6.9. Lust signifies sometimes all sorts of sins, Ephes. 4.22. Tit. 2.12. It is true, it is a most lamentable grief to see Gods children fall into gross and soul evils, and to run with the times in the same excess of riot and disorder; I say it is lamentable both in respect of the scandal of it, and in respect of the wound it makes in the conscience, and in respect of the fierce judgement of God, wherewith he doth pursue it: but I think this is not here meant, or not chiefly. For this is not enough to show that we bear the image of Christ after calling, that we are free from outward gross sins, but he goeth further, and therefore
1. May meane those grosse sinnes, which before calling, while they were wicked, some of them lived in, such as were whoredome, drunkennesse, covetousnesse, railings, &c. For these and such as these in the fourth Chapter hee calleth lusts of the Gentiles, and such were some of them, 1 Cor. 6.9. Lust signifies sometimes all sorts of sins, Ephes. 4.22. Tit. 2.12. It is true, it is a most lamentable griefe to see Gods children fall into grosse and soule evils, and to run with the times in the same excesse of riot and disorder; I say it is lamentable both in respect of the scandall of it, and in respect of the wound it makes in the conscience, and in respect of the fierce judgement of God, wherewith he doth pursue it: but I think this is not here meant, or not chiefly. For this is not enough to shew that we bear the image of Christ after calling, that we are free from outward grosse sins, but hee goeth further, and therefore