A17385:1538
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.
1There is a threefold holiness in God, or he is holy three ways. 1. By nature, being void of all corruption or change. 2. By administration, and so his holiness is his justice, in distributing rewards to the good, and punishment to the evil. 3. By conception, for the Lord doth conceive the Idea, or the patterns of the holiness of all the reasonable creatures. The Carpenter conceives first the frame of his house in his head, and then buildeth it according to the pattern: So doth God conceive first the holiness that is fit for the creature, and then works it in them. This Idea or pattern of holiness, or virtues in God, is either internal in the mind of God from eternity, or external in the word of God.
1There is a threefold holinesse in God, or hee is holy three waies. 1. By nature, being void of all corruption or change. 2. By administration, and so his holinesse is his justice, in distributing rewards to the good, and punishment to the evill. 3. By conception, for the Lord doth conceive the Idaea, or the patterns of the holinesse of all the reasonable creatures. The Carpenter conceives first the frame of his house in his head, and then buildeth it according to the patterne: So doth God conceive first the holinesse that is fit for the creature, and then works it in them. This Idaea or patterne of holinesse, or vertues in God, is either internall in the mind of God from eternity, or externall in the word of God.
- 1God holy three ways.God holy three waies.
Now the holiness of God that we are to imitate, is both that holiness which God hath conceived in the pattern expressed in the word, and also that which is in the nature of God, as it is described in the word. There is also a holiness of works in God which we must imitate: I mean of particular works, as in carriage toward enemies,