A17385:1559
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.
3. The third is preciseness or circumspection, making conscience of lesser sins as well as greater, and avoiding the appearances and occasions of evils, as well as the evils themselves, Eph. 5.15.
3. The third is precisenesse or circumspection, making conscience of lesser sins as well as greater, and avoiding the appearances and occasions of evils, as well as the evils themselves, Eph. 5.15.
4. Conversation in heaven, which is so to use the world, as to let our hearts still run upon God and his Kingdom, directing all our actions some way to further that end, Phil. 3.20.
4. Conversation in heaven, which is so to use the world, as to let our hearts still run upon God and his Kingdome, directing all our actions some way to further that end, Phil. 3.20.
5. Meekness of wisdom, which is showed by lowliness, and not being wise in our selves, but doing good in a continued sense of our own vileness and unworthiness, to do any service to God or man, Jam. 3.13. This is called a conversation with fear,