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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. Here again we may take occasion to try our faith: If thy faith be a true faith, thou mayest know it by the object of it, if it set thy thoughts and affections on God, if thou canst say as David, Psal. 73.25. then certainly thou hast faith, and so contrariwise.
1. Here againe we may take occasion to try our faith: If thy faith be a true faith, thou maist know it by the object of it, if it set thy thoughts and affections on God, if thou canst say as David, Psal. 73.25. then certainly thou hast faith, and so contrariwise.
2. Is God the object of faith? then be of good comfort, he will never deny his promise, Tit. 1.2. He is able to keep what thou committest to him, 2 Tim. 1.12. He is an Ocean able every way to fill thee with all sufficiency and happiness.
2. Is God the object of faith? then be of good comfort, hee will never deny his promise, Tit. 1.2. Hee is able to keepe what thou committest to him, 2 Tim. 1.12. He is an Ocean able every way to fill thee with all sufficiency and happinesse.
The third thing follows, viz. the nature of faith, which is to believe in God. To believe, is more then to understand, conjecture, hope, remember, or affect: It is to do all that with affiance, assent, or persuasion, and that is more plain i we note the phrase of speech in God; for we may be said to believe four ways: 1. To believe that God is. 2. To believe God. 3. To believe of God. 4. To believe in God: for this latter doth import a casting of our selves upon God.