A17385:1884
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.
1I answer, that he came of Adam, but not by Adam, that is, not by carnal propagation, but was conceived by the holy Ghost, and so original sin stopped: and for his infirmities, I said before, he received such infirmities, as the Fathers call miserable, that is, such as were punishments, not sins; but not such as were damnable, as all sinful infirmities are.
1I answer, that he came of Adam, but not by Adam, that is, not by carnall propagation, but was conceived by the holy Ghost, and so originall sin stopped: and for his infirmities, I said before, he received such infirmities, as the Fathers call miserable, that is, such as were punishments, not sins; but not such as were damnable, as all sinfull infirmities are.
- 1Answ.
1The Uses follow.
- 1Uses.Vses.
1. We should inform our selves by often meditation of this wonderful righteousness in Christ, beholding by our medication the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.
1. We should informe our selves by often meditation of this wonderfull righteousnesse in Christ, beholding by our medication the lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world.