A17385:1507
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.
[…] may understand more distinctly what our ca•••ng fr•m God […], it will not be amiss to consider, 1. […] God calls us. 2. What our effectual calling is. 3. Why our conversion is termed by the name of calling. 4. How […] can know, that God calls me in particular, seeing he doth not name me. 5. Why did G•d call us. 6. To what he calls us. 7. The […].
〈…〉 may understand more distinctly what our ca•••ng fr•m God 〈…〉, it will not be amisse to consider, 1. 〈…〉 God calls us. 2. What our effe•tuall calling is. 3. Why our conv•rsion is termed by the name of calling. 4. How 〈…〉 can know, that God calls me in particular, seeing he doth not name me. 5. Why did G•d call us. 6. To what he calls us. 7. The 〈…〉.
For the first: the ••lling of God is either particular or general. The particular is to se•ve G•d in some set function of outward life,1 and so is the […]. The general calling is to the service of […] with promise of eternal reward through the […] Christ. This general calling is likewise of three sorts. 1. External. ⟨p. 120⟩