A17385:659
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.
And thus of the first reason.
Though now for a season you are in heaviness.
Though now for a season you are in heavinesse.
1There are divers sorts of heaviness. 1. There is the heaviness of the desperate, such was that in Cain and Judas. 2. and the heaviness of the disappointed, such was the heaviness of Haman, Ahab, and Ammon, when they could not compass their ambitious, covetous, and voluptuous ends. 3. And there is the heaviness of the melancholyf, and of the scandalized. 4. There is the heaviness of the penitent for sins. 5. and of the afflicted for crosses. 6. There is a heaviness in Gods children after calling for spiritual respects, as for corruption gof nature, for habsence of Christ, for iwant of the means, for the kdishonour of God in public abominations, for the lmiseries of the Church, for Gods m