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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.
3. The question they studied, or unto which they testify: In general, it was of salvation, ver. 10. In special, it was of the manner, and time of the grace foretold.
3. The question they studied, or vnto which they testifie: In generall, it was of saluation, ver. 10. In speciall, it was of the manner, and time of the grace foretold.
4. The occasion, that fired them to this earnest desire after this knowledge, and that was the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, driving them to foretell of the passion of Christ, and glories that should follow.
4. The occasion, that fired them to this earnest desire after this knowledge, and that was the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, driuing them to foretell of the passion of Christ, and glories that should follow.
5. The success, and that is, that they were ⟨image 5⟩answered of God, where observe two things. 1. The manner of the giving the answer, it was by revelation; […] whom it was re•ealed. 2. The matter of the answer, which concerns bo•h Persons and Things. The persons are considered negatively, and so they were resolved, that they themselves were not the men, to whom those glories did belong: and affirmatively, that they did minister those things unto us Christians. Now the things promised are not only propounded, but commended: and that two ways. 1. By the glory of their efficient causes, which were less principal, the Apostles: and more principal, the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. 2. By the adjunct respect of the Angels, which things the Angels desire to look into.