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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.
Gods mercy is abundant: 1. In the fountain in himself,1 there is an Ocean of mercy in God: It is infinite in him, as his nature is; yea it is his nature it self to be so: 2. In the streams, and that either generally considered,2 and so it flows to all the creatures reasonable and unreasonable, good and bad, *The whole earth is full of his goodness: or more specially, as it flows to the faithful. Now Gods mercy is abundant to the faithful 3. ways: 1. In the kinds of mercy:4 for the Lord xcompasseth them about with variety of all sorts of mercy. 2. In the extent of mercy: He did not spend all his mercy on David, or Abraham, or the like: but he keeps and reserves mercy for thousands, even for all the thousands in all ages, that believe ywith faithful Abraham, and will zhear and do all Gods will with obedient David: He is plenteous in mercy to all that call upon him a3. In the continuance of mercyb: for his mercy is as himself everlasting: and it must needs appear to be so, that God is wonderful abundant in mercy, because it is he, that is the father cof all the mercy in the world, and it is he, that requireth mercy in men.
Gods mercy is abundant: 1. In the fountaine in himselfe,1 there is an Ocean of mercy in God: It is infinite in him, as his nature is; yea it is his nature it selfe to be so: 2. In the streames, and that either generally considered,