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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.
3. For terror to all wicked men: that sin against the blood of Christ, by despising and neglecting the grace of the covenant, by swearing, by unworthy receiving the sacrament, and by their obstinate unbelief and impenitency. Shall the blood of Abel cry for such vengeance, and shall not the blood of Christ much more? What a blood-guiltiness do these men draw upon themselves, that sin against the blood of Christ? If Judas burst his heart with despair for betraying it, how can their case be better for despising it?
3. For terror to all wicked men: that sin against the blood of Christ, by despising and neglecting the grace of the covenant, by swearing, by unworthy receiving the sacrament, and by their obstinate unbeleefe and impenitency. Shall the blood of Abel cry for such vengeance, and shall not the blood of Christ much more? What a blood-guiltinesse doe these men draw upon themselves, that sinne against the blood of Christ? If Iudas burst his heart with despaire for betraying it, how can their case be better for despising it?
Thus of the benefits, which come by the blood of Christ: Now it followeth, that I should open the meaning of those ceremonial legal sprinklings, and show, how they did in their kind fore-signify the mystery of this sprinkling of the blood of Christ.
Thus of the benefits, which come by the blood of Christ: Now it followeth, that I should open the meaning of those ceremoniall legall sprinklings, and shew, how they did in their kinde fore-signifie the mystery of this sprinkling of the blood of Christ.