A17385:482
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.
1For the first: the ordinary means, by which God doth beget us again, is the word preached, as these places do evidently show. Rom. 10. 14. 1 Pet. 1.23. 1 Cor. 1.21. Gal. 3.2. Isaiah 55.4.
1For the first: the ordinary meanes, by which God doth beget us againe, is the word preached, as these places doe evidently shew. Rom. 10. 14. 1 Pet. 1.23. 1 Cor. 1.21. Gal. 3.2. Esay 55.4.
- 1The means of the new birth.The meanes of the new birth.
1For the second: this great work is marvellously hindered, and that diversly: For first many men are seduced: seduced I say, either with hope of §1mercy howsoever, or with the colours of civill honesty and some good they do: or with pretence of after-repentance: or with the examples of wise, learned, and great men: or with prejudice conceited by reason of slanders cast upon such, as are converted: or with the common charity of the world, […], when they die: or with false opinions, as that men have all their regeneration by Baptism: or that reformation will prove an enemy to their credit, or profit, or contentment: or else, that they are as they should be, because they are better then they were, and have more liking of Sermons, or care of religion, or such like.