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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.
Now for the second: The resurrection of Christ i• • fountain of singular benefits unto us: For from thence flows, 1. our glorification: for he went away to provide a place for us,1 even to prepare ythose heavenly mansions for us. 2. The resurrection of our bodies: for the spirit that raised Christ from the dead, hath thereby given us assurance, that he will raise our zmortal bodies also. 3. The confirmation of our faith, and that in divers things: For his resurrection assures us that he is the promised Messiah, and aSon of God: and that our debt is payed, and that he hath discharged the uttermost farthing (for else he had not been let out of prison,) and that he hath vanquished all our spiritual enemies, and utterly foiled and disarmed them, in that they could not keep him down, when they had him in the grave: but he hath triumphed over them. 4. Our justification, and regeneration: for so the Apostle shows in the 4. to the Romans, that bhe rose again for our justification, and here it is expressly said, that we are begotten again through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Now for the second: The resurrection of Christ i• • fountaine of singular benefits unto us: For from thence flowes, 1. our glorification: for hee went away to provide a place for us,1 even to prepare ythose heavenly mansions for us. 2. The resurrection of our bodies: for the spirit that raised Christ from the dead, hath thereby given us assurance, that he will raise our