A17385:1786
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.
5. From the present evil world, even from the judgements might have fallen upon us for our sins, and from the bondage under the course of this world, and from all the enchantments with which we were bewitched, Gal. 1.•.
5. From the present evill world, even from the judgements might have fallen upon us for our sinnes, and from the bondage under the course of this world, and from all the enchantments with which wee were bewitched, Gal. 1.•.
6. Lastly, we are redeemed from our vain conversation, even from the power of our own corruption, and the practice of a body of sins. This last is here mentioned either by a synecdoche, by one part meaning the whole, or else to note, that till we be freed from the power of sin in our conversation, we can never actually attain the comfort of any of the former, as were easy to prove in the particulars. Thus in general.
6. Lastly, we are redeemed from our vaine conversation, even from the power of our owne corruption, and the practice of a body of sins. This last is here mentioned either by a synecdoche, by one part meaning the whole, or else to note, that till we be freed from the power of sin in our conversation, we can never actually attaine the comfort of any of the former, as were easie to prove in the particulars. Thus in generall.
In particular I consider of two things.