A17385:1704
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.
Time may be considered in the means of it: either the means of effecting, or appointing,1 which is the decree of God with all the means of execution of it: or else the means of declaring or numbering, which is the course of the Sun, and Moon: 2our continuance on earth is not disposed by the course of the heavens, but by the decree and providence of God.3
Time may be considered in the meanes of it: either the meanes of effecting, or appointing,1 which is the decree of God with all the meanes of execution of it: or else the meanes of declaring or numbring, which is the course of the Sun, and Moone: 2our continuance on earth is not disposed by the course of the heavens, but by the decree and providence of God.3
By time here is meant that space of continuance on earth,1 which God in his counsel hath set us, and is numbered by the motion of the Sun or Moon.