A17385:747
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.
Now the trial in affliction is not simply or properly the affliction it self,1 but certain specialties of consideration in the affliction: and thus God tries us, ⟨p. 65⟩1. First, when he sends many crosses one in the neck of another, and some of them of longer continuance, Dan. 11.33, 35. and so in Jobs case. 2. Secondly, when he sends upon our spirits strange and unwonted terrors, Exod. 20.20. 3. Thirdly, when he smites some eminent men with sore, and unexpected judgements, Dan. 11.34. 4. Fourthly, when he delayeth or withholdeth expected favours, Deu. 8.2. 5. Fifthly, when he gives but a little help, Dan. 11.34. 6. Sixthly, when he leaves us to our selves, and withdraws the special working of his spirit, 2 Chron. 32.31. 7. Seventhly, when he suffers us to fall into the same miseries that wicked men do, yea sometimes making our condition to be as the beasts of the field, Eccles. 3.17, 18, 19.
Now the tryall in affliction is not simply or properly the affliction it selfe,1 but certaine specialties of consideration in the affliction: and thus God tries us, ⟨p. 65⟩1. First, when he sends many crosses one in the neck of another, and some of them of longer continuance, Dan. 11.33, 35