A17385:1912
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.
2. Secondly, that knowledge of approbation, God knowing man above ⟨p. 150⟩others with his special favour: this reacheth only to the Elect.
2. Secondly, that knowledge of approbation, God knowing man above ⟨p. 150⟩others with his speciall favour: this reacheth onely to the Elect.
3. Now there is a third kind of knowledge or fore-knowledge, when God is said to know things, as a Judge doth in giving sentence: Hence Plebiscitum was an ordinance made by the commons; and so when the Judge had sentenced a cause, he was said to have known the cause. In this last sense the word is here taken, and therefore well rendered fore-ordained: to note such a fore-sight, as had a determination and statute in it.
3. Now there is a third kind of knowledg or fore-knowledg, when God is said to know things, as a Judge doth in giving sentence: Hence Plebiscitum was an ordin••ce made by the commons; and so when the Judge had sentenced a cause, he was said to have knowne the cause. In this last sense the word is here taken, and therefore well rendred fore-ordained: to note such a fore-sight, as had a determination and statute in it.
The decrees of God are by some Divines distinguished by the names of Providence and Predestination: Providence they would have contain all that order that the Lord took from all eternity concerning all things in the world whatsoever; so as there is nothing but is liable to Gods decree. Now Predestination comprehends only those decrees that concern the reasonable creatures, and especially those that concern the Election of some of them.