A17385:222
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. For consolation to the godly:1 God useth them and ever will use them like a Father, both for the affections of a father, and for the provisions of a ⟨p. 12⟩father: he both loves them, and provides for them, as a father for his children. Gods affection to the godly is a fatherly affection: for it is 1. free, and 2. tender, and 3. constant. 1. A fatherly love is a free love, there needs no argument to a father, but that, this is my child; so it is with God. 2. A fatherly love is a tender love, it hath much compassion and care in it▪ such is Gods love to the godly: Look how Parents pity their children so doth God pity them, that fear him, Psal. 103.13. yea God is troubled in their troubles, and his bowels are turned in him in their discouragements and griefs Isaiah 63.8.