A17385:186
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.
The Uses follow.
1. For information: We have here a sea of contemplation, that the heart of man can never be able to conceive of.1 How great cause had the Apostle to cry out as he did, O the depths of the wisdom of God! so David Psal. 114.24. Rom. 11.29. Secondly, this may show us, that men cannot possibly be just before God, seeing the knowledge of God is so excellent and infinite, Job. 9.2, 3.
1. For information: We have here a sea of contemplation, that the heart of man can never be able to conceive of.1 How great cause had the Apostle to cry out as he did, O the depths of the wisdome of God! so David Psal. 114.24. Rom. 11.29. Secondly, this may shew us, that men cannot possibly be just before God, seeing the knowledge of God is so excellent and infinite, Iob. 9.2, 3.
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2. The doctrine of this infinite and eternal knowledge, or fore-knowledge of God, is used in divers scriptures for singular consolation in divers distresses: as