A17385:607
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.
1The Uses of this doctrine concerning the revelation of salvation are divers: First it is exceeding comfortable unto Gods children, and thi• comfort may be concluded out of this doctrine three ways: First from the general, they may hence be greatly heartened, that those great things which are ⟨p. 51⟩promised, shall one day be revealed: They are now the sons of God, but it doth not appear what they shall be: their miseries are revealed now, but their salvation is but prepared to be revealed. Secondly, here is comfort in particular against slanders and reproaches, and the evil censures and surmises of men, and wretched imputations. Their innocency shall one day be revealed, and the sins and secret plots of adversaries shall one day be discovered;n There is nothing covered, that shall not then be revealed: that day shall try mens works. And also against all sorts of erosses might this doctrine comfort us: For if we did think of the things that are not seen as yet, they would make us hold all our afflictions light and momentary, in comparison of what we expect. And thirdly, from the less to the greater, they may hence deduce singular comfort: For if now at some times, when it is but in preparation to be revealed, Gods people do find so much comfort, what shall that superabundant happiness be, when that Abyssus shall be broken up,3 and the mines of treasure shall be discovered and possessed?
1The Uses of this doctrine concerning the revelation of salvation are divers: First it is exceeding comfortable unto Gods children, and thi• comfort may be concluded out of this doctrine three waies: First from the generall, they may hence be greatly heartned, that those great things which are ⟨p. 51⟩promised, shall one day be revealed: They are now the sonnes of God, but it doth not appeare what they shall be: their miseries are revealed now, but their salvation is but prepared to be revealed. Secondly, here is comfort in particular against slanders and reproaches, and the evill censures and surmises of men, and wretched imputations. Their innocencie shall one day be revealed, and the sinnes and secret plots of adversaries shall one day be discovered;