A17385:1600
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.
If any ask, How then is Christ commonly said to be our Judge? Act. 17.30.1
If any aske, How then is Christ commonly said to be our Judge? Act. 17.30.1
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I answer, that the last judgement being a work ad extra, is common to all the three Persons, and is so attributed in Scripture, but in different respects:1 for the authority of the last judgement is in the whole Trinity, but the execution of it is in the Sonne. This doctrine must needs be comfortable to the godly: who would fear the trial when his own Father is Judge, yea and law-giver, and hath before promised infinite mercy, and is an everlasting Father, […] compassion never fails, (for so is God to us,) and hath given pledge, and seals, and earnest of assurance, that it shall go well?