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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
THE METAPHRASE of the first Chapter of the first Epistle of 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.
And lastly you loose nothing by your tentations,1 and afflictions. For your faith, which is a thing more precious in Gods account, then all the gold in the world (for that will perish, and come to be of no use one day) is hereby tried; and what though the fire▪ of the furnace of affliction be somewhat hot, yet remember what wonderful praise, and honour, and glory you shall have for the steadfastness of your faith, when Jesus Christ shall appear, and with his own mouth commend you, and glorify you before all the world.
And lastly you loose nothing by your tentations,1 and afflictions. For your faith, which is a thing more preciou• in Gods account, then all the gold in the world (for that will perish, and come to be of no vse one day) is hereby tryed; and what though the fire▪ of the furnace of affliction be somewhat hot, yet remember what wonderfull praise, and honor, and glory you shall haue for the stedfastnes of your faith, when Iesus Christ shall appeare, and with his owne mouth commend you, and glorifie you before all the world.
- 1Verse 7. That the trial of your faith being much more precious, then of gold that […], though it be tried by the fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.V•rse 7. That the tryall of your faith being much more precious, then of gold that 〈…〉, though it be tryed by the fire, might be found vnto praise, and honor, and glory at the appearing of Iesus Christ.
If you object, that you do not know, whether the former consolations do belong unto you,