A17385:638
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.
Fifthly, A question may be here demanded, and that is, why the Lord here §5and in many places of Scripture else doth express the answer,1 and suppress the objection?
Fiftly, A question may be here demanded, and that is, why the Lord here §5and in many places of Scripture else doth expresse the answer,1 and suppresse the objection?
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For answer hereunto, divers things may profitably be supposed. 1. First the Lord hereby shows unto men in their own experience,1 what a divine light is in the Scriptures, that can thus discern the hidden things of man. 2. Secondly, it may be, the objections are suppressed, lest men hearing the objections should learn to object. 3. Thirdly, the Lord hereby shows mans nature, who usually will not say so much, yet the Lord saith, they do think so. 4. Lastly, I think for the most part the Lord doth it out of his compassion and tenderness towards his people, these things arising out of ⟨p. 54⟩mens frailty, he is willing many times to lay to the plaster, and yet not uncover the sore: and for fear of discouraging them, he rather implies their weaknesses then expresseth them, that they might be assured, that he is inclined rather to pity them, than to hate them; rather to succour them, than to reprove them.
For answer hereunto, divers things may profitably be supposed. 1. First the Lord hereby shews unto men in their owne experience,