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Sermons upon the first chapter of the first epistle general of Peter Wherein method,…Sermons vpon the first chapter of the first epistle generall of Peter Wherein method,…
Sermons upon the first chapter of the first epistle general of Peter Wherein method, sense, doctrine and use is with great variety of matter profitably handled. By Nicholas Byfeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex. The rest of the epistle may be published in due time, if God will.Sermons vpon the first chapter of the first epistle generall of Peter Wherein method, sense, doctrine and vse is with great varietie of matter profitably handled. By Nicholas Byfeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex. The rest of the epistle may be published in due time, if God will.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, 1617
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.
Others think, they were Gentiles converted to the Jewish Religion,1 and so they take strangers and Proselytes to be all one; and to such Peter preached Act: 2. and converted many of them, and they think he writes to them now.
Others thinke, they were Gentiles converted to the Iewish Religion,1 and so they take strangers and Proselites to be all one; and to such Peter preached Act: 2. and converted many of them, and they thinke he writes to them now.
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Others think, that this Epistle is so written to ⟨p. 7⟩the Jews, as it is intended also for those elect Gentiles in those parts,1 because he saith chap: 2. 10. that these people were not in times past a people, nor under mercy, but now were the people of God, and had obtained mercy: which words do not so fitly agree to the Jews, and so all the Elect of God are strangers in this world, and so the word is evidently used, ch: 2. 12. and I think it is to be taken in this last sense.
Others thinke, that this Epistle is so written to ⟨p. 7⟩the Iewes, as it is intended also for those elect Gentiles in those parts,1 because he saith chap: 2. 10. that these people were not in times past a people, nor vnder mercy, but now were the people of God, and had obtained mercy: which words doe not so fitly agree to the Iewes, and so all the Elect of God are strangers in this world, and so the word is euidently vsed, ch: 2. 12. and I thinke it is to be taken in this last sense.