A17385:1767
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.
Secondly, that they are corruptible things.
That they cannot redeem the soul of man is evident, 1. By proof, Psal. 49.6, 7. 2. By experience, we see wicked men abound in these things, and yet go to hell, Psal. 17. ult. & 73.12. Eccles. 9.11. 3. This may appear by a distribution of the parts of redemption: for they cannot appease Gods anger, Prov. 11.4. they cannot restrain the devils power: they cannot buy us a righteousness answerable to that the law requires: they cannot be a ransom to keep the soul from hell, Job 29.9, 19, 20. they cannot cover our imperfect work•: they cannot buy us a better nature, but rather choke the word of God, Mat. 13. and make men careless of repentance, and conceited of themselves and wilful to entertain sin, Prov. 28.11. Hosea 12.8. and drown men in noisome lusts, 1 Tim. 6.9. yea how hard is it for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of heaven? Mat. 19. Lastly, they cannot make us immortall, Jam. 1.10, 11. Thus it is clear, they cannot redeem us.