A17385:559
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.
Secondly, this may serve for information: For it may show us the impotency of all earthly things, nothing but Gods power can keep us to salvation. His work it is to preserve, whose will it is to save. Mans natural life stands not in the rabundance of the things, he doth possess: neither is our spiritual life sustained by the bare having of abundance of means.
Secondly, this may serve for information: For it may shew us the impotency of all earthly things, nothing but Gods power can keepe us to salvation. His worke it is to preserve, whose will it is to save. Mans naturall life stands not in the rabundance of the things, he doth possesse: neither is our spirituall life sustained by the bare having of abundance of meanes.
Thirdly, it may serve for instruction, and that divers ways: 1. First, we should beg of God the spirit of wisdom, and revelation, to show the exceeding greatness of his powers, that we might discern it, and believe it by faith; seeing we do not observe it by sense and reason: 2. Secondly, we should daily ascribe power unto God, even acknowledging continually his power in ⟨p. 45⟩keeping us from day to day, as our Saviour Christ teacheth us in the tLords prayer, when he teacheth us to ascribe kingdom, power, and glory to him: and with Peter we should learn to put off praise from our selves unto God, as he did in the cure of the Cripple, saying,