A17385:1496
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.
As he that hath called you.
The first thing i• whom we must imitate, a•d that is here expressed by […], to be he, that hath called us, viz. God; and the Lord doth of purp••• […] o• descriptions of himself for divers reasons.
The first thing i• whom we must imitate, a•d that is here exprest by 〈…〉, to be he, that hath called us, viz. God; and the Lord doth of purp••• 〈…〉 o• descriptions of himselfe for divers rea•ons.
1. […] our disability to conceive of God, as he is fully; and therefore he […] his knowledge into us by drops or sparkles as it were; so far is our nature swerved from the knowledge of God, that the doctrine o• God in the whole i• a doctrin• too transcendent for us. 2. This God d•th to excite affection in us toward him, as taking no delight in a dull contemplation of him, and therefore by such periphrases he doth with some […] consideration either gore us (if it be a phrase of terror or suddenly […] with some divine spales, that like lightning force our attd. 3. The ord doth use such descriptions out of choice of […] which is most pertinent to the question in hand: The Lord thrughut the whole Scripture is every where respective of the names he giveth […]: