A17385:1485
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 15. But as he which called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation.
Hitherto of the first branch of the description of Gods image in us, as his children: viz. our conformity to God in holiness, and so the image of God in us is our endeavour to be like God in all things in holiness.
HItherto of the first branch of the description of Gods image in us, as his children: viz. our conformity to God in holinesse, and so the image of God in us is our endevour to be like God in all things in holinesse.
There are three great considerations in this verse, 1. whom we must imitate, viz. him that hath called us. 2. In what we must imitate him, viz. in holiness, 3. how, viz in all manner of conversation.
There are three great considerations in this verse, 1. whom we must imitate, viz. him that hath called us. 2. In what we must imitate him, viz. in holinesse, 3. how, viz in all manner of conversation.
In general and from the coherence we must note,
Ingenerall and from the coherence we must note,