A17385:173
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.
According to fore-knowledge]
1Prescience or fore-knowledge in God is considered more largely▪ or more strictly: more largely, and so it notes the whole act of praeordination: so in the 20. verse of this chapter, it is rendered ordained: more strictly and properly, for the knowledge of God, preceding in order the appointment to the end, and thus it is taken two ways: For there is a prescience, they call in schools absolute, by which God from eternity doth know all things simply and absolutely:2 so the word is used, 2 Pet. 3.17. There is also a prescience, they call special, by which God not only knoweth the Elect, as he knoweth other things, but acknowledgeth them for his, and loves them above all others, and this is called the knowledge of approbation. Rom. 8.27. & 11.2.
1Praescience or fore-knowledge in God is considered more largely▪ or more strictly: more largely, and so it notes the whole act of praeordination: so in the 20. verse of this chapter, it is rendred ordained: more strictly and properly, for the knowledge of God, praeceding in order the appointment to the end, and thus it is taken two wayes: For there is a praescience, they call in schooles absolute, by which God from eternity doth know all things simply and absolutely:2 so the word is used, 2 Pet. 3.17. There is also a praescience, they call speciall, by which God not onely knoweth the Elect, as hee knoweth other things, but acknowledgeth them for his, and loves them above all others, and this is called the knowledge of approbation.