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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
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[…] learn not to be ashamed of Gods Flect, but choose unto us, whom God hath chosen to him: choose them, I say, both to honour them, and to sort with them, and to countenance them, and defend them. Ministers should acknowledge these in their teaching, and great men in […].
〈…〉 learne not to be ashamed of Gods Flect, but choose vnto vs, whom God hath chosen to him: choose them, I say, both to honor them, and to sort with them, and to countenance them, and defend them. Ministers should acknowledge these in their teaching, and great men in 〈…〉.
This also may be a doctrine of singular terror to wicked men, that will not be gathered and called by the means of salvation, Isaiah 66. 4, 5. If it be such a felicity to be chosen of God, what misery is it then to be rejected of God for ever? If such a vexation to be disgraced and scorned of great men, what is it then to be rejected of the ⟨p. 19⟩great God? and this is the more woeful, if the fore-runner of the full declaration of it be upon men, I mean a spirit of slumber, Rom: 11. 7. 10.
This also may be a doctrine of singular terror to wicked men, that will not bee gathered and call'd by the meanes of saluation, Esay 66. 4, 5. If it be such a felicitie to be chosen of God, what miserie is it then to be reiected of God for euer? If such a •exation to be disgraced and scorned of great men, what is it then to be reiected of the ⟨p. 19⟩great God? and this is the more wofull, if the fore-runner of the full declaration of it be vpon men, I meane a spirit of slumber, Rom: 11. 7. 10.