A17385:459
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.
There is a threefold generation.
1The first is corporeal, called i• Schools Logical and predicamental, and this i• of bodily things, which by themselves, and out of themselves, and without themselves do beget. The second is transcendent and metaphysical, and this is of spirits, and is men••ll. For here the mind as an uncomp•unded subject, doth not o•• of it self, but by it self, and in it self beget, and thus it begets contemplation or reason, thoughts or affections. The third is supre••• and singular, 2or […], and that is that generation, by which the Father in himself, and by himself, by nature, and not by faculty or power, begets the Son, and this is that, which in this place is to be conceived of: so that we must as•e•d highe•, then the geni•u•• of bodies, or souls, and ⟨p. 31⟩when we are come to the Ocean, that is beyond and highs, then either of those, we must rest and wonder, especially taking heed to our thoughts, a• in other things, so that in three things we imagine no likeness between the Father begetting the Son in the Trinity, and earthly fathers begetting their sons in the world.