A17385:1491
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.
In general and from the coherence we must note,
Ingenerall and from the coherence we must note,
11. That it is not enough that we approve our selves to be Gods children, that we avoid sin, but we must also be employed in doing good. Hence we are compared to trees, in which barrenness is as gr•at a fault, as ill fruit.
11. That it is not enough that we approve our selves to be Gods children, that we avoid sin, but we must also be employed in doing good. Hence we are compared to trees, in which barrennesse is as gr•at a fault, as ill fruit.
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2. That the pattern of all holiness is God himself, or Christ, or rather God in Christ. For whither else should we go for example? If to the dumb creatures, they have not natures capable of holiness. If to Angels, they are invisible, and so we cannot behold them, and in Scripture little is recorded of them; and besides, we know many of them fell away. If to man, they are all fallen in Adam, and there is none that doth good, and good men have their both errors and sins. Therefore we may say, whom have we in heaven but God,