A17385:1917
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. There is the Election of Angels unto confirmation in their estates.
3. There is the Election of Christ unto the Mediatorship, and headship over Angels and men: Of this he means here, and the decree concerning the Election of Christ is the most illustrious of all the rest, and concerns the execution of the most glorious work that ever was to be in the world.
3. There is the Election of Christ unto the Mediatorship, and headship over Angels and men: Of this hee meanes here, and the decree concerning the Election of Christ is the most illustrious of all the rest, and concernes the execution of the most glorious worke that ever was to be in the world.
The sum then is, that the Lord in his book of eternal statutes hath recorded, and determined concerning this course of saving man by the mediation of his Sonne. Christ is fore-ordained in respect of his office of Mediatorship, not simply in respect of his person, as God: for so he is not the person predestinated, but with the Father and holy Ghost it is he that doth predestinate […]s he was to show himself God made man, as Mediator between God and man, so he was subject to that ordinance.
The summe then is, that the Lord in his booke of eternall statutes hath recorded, and determined concerning this course of saving man by the mediation of his Sonne. Christ is fore-ordained in respect of his office of Mediatorship, not simply in respect of his person, as God: for so hee is not the person predestinated, but with the Father and holy Ghost it is he that doth predestinate 〈…〉s he was to shew himselfe God made man, as Mediator be•weene God and man, so he was subject to that ordinance.