A17385:1838
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.
1. Th•• from all eternity was the begotten Son of God.
2. That in time was conceived so miraculously by the over-shadowing of the holy Ghost, and borne of a Virgin (a most transcendent wonder,) made a true man, and this h•••ne nature of ours was taken into the subsistence upon the person of his divine nature, so as he was now [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ a God and a man, Rom. 9.5.
2. That in time was conceived so miraculously by the over-shadowing of the holy Ghost, and borne of a Virgin (a most transcendent wonder,) made a true man, and this h•••ne nature of ours was taken into the subsist••ce upon the person of his divine nature, so as he was now 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ▪ a God and a man, Rom. 9.5.
3. That in both these united natures by an unspeakable mission from God the Father, he did undertake that marvellous office of mediation between God and man, wherein he took it upon him to unite us to God, and God to us for ever. This is our Saviour, and this is he alone that claims the glory of this work: he alone trod the wine-press of Gods wrath; he alone is our Saviour, and there is no other,