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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
THE METAPHRASE OF THE FIRST CHAPter of the first Epistle of ST. PETER.
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.
1Now there are six reasons, which may induce you to the care of a holy conversation intended in the former duties. 1. The first concerns the image of God: ye are the children of God, and therefore you should live so, as becomes ⟨image 6⟩Gods children, and express in your carriage the resemblance of the nature of God, not given your selves over, on• of the liking of sin, to the service and obedience of any of those corruptions, which either your selves lived in before your calling, or are usually found in such only, as know not GOD.
1Now there are six reasons, which may induce you to the care of a holy conversation intended in the former dutyes. 1. The first concernes the image of God: ye are the children of God, and therefore you should live so, as becomes ⟨image 6⟩Gods children, and expresse in your cariage the resemblance of the nature of God, not given your selves over, on• of the liking of sinne, to the service and obedience of any of those corruptions, which either your selves lived in before your calling, or are usually found in such onely, as know not GOD.
- 1Ver. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former. lu••s in your ignorance.Ver. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former. lu••s in your ignorāce.
1But as God, who by the power of his word hath converted you, is holy; so should you strive with respect of all his commandments to resemble the praises of God in all your carage, striving in every duty to follow your pattern.