A17385:1886
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. 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.
2. For instruction many things may be urged.
1. We should give honour to the lamb that sitteth upon the throne, whose praises fill both heaven and earth, Rev. 5.7. &c. 2. We should daily send this lamb to the ruler of the earth, daily present him to God for us, Isaiah 16.1. 3. These praises of Christ should convert us to his image: this very doctrine converted the Eunuch, Act. 8.31. we should imitate the praises of Christ, hereby imported, as these places show, Rev. 14.1. to 6. 4. Let us for his testimony resist the gates of hell, by believing in him, and love not our lives unto the death for his sake, Rev. 12.11.
1. We should give honour to the lambe that sitteth upon the throne, whose praises fill both heaven and earth, Rev. 5.7. &c. 2. We should daily send this lambe to the ruler of the earth, daily present him to God for us, Esay 16.1. 3. These praises of Christ should convert us to his image: this very doctrine converted the Eunuch,