A17385:1484
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.
3. It hath never been in the furnace, I mean of mortification; it hath never been truly repented of: whereas the ignorance of the godly hath often been in the fire: it hath been often confessed, rended, mourned for, &c.
3. It hath never beene in the furnace, I meane of mortification; it hath never been truly repented of: whereas the ignorance of the godly hath often been in the fire: it hath been often confessed, rended, mourned for, &c.
4. It will suffer no saving grace to neighbour by it; where ignorance hath not been repented of, there no fear of God, no holy contemplation, no uprightness, love of God, or his word, or his people, will dwell. Now the ignorance that is in Gods children, is well neighboured with many holy graces that can dwell by it.
4. It will suffer no saving grace to neighbour by it; where ignorance hath not beene repented of, there no feare of God, no holy contemplation, no uprightnesse, love of God, or his word, or his people, will dwell. Now the ignorance that is in Gods children, is well neighboured with many holy graces that can dwell by it.
And as these ignorances differ in nature and working, so they differ in imputation: For unto the godly there is a sacrifice for ignorance: God d•th not impute ignorance unto the godly: it shall be to them according to what they know, and not according to what they know not.