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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.
CHAP. I. verses 1, 2. 1. Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers, that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia. 2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father unto sanctification of the spirit through obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you.
CHAP. I. verses 1, 2. 1. Peter an Apostle of Iesus Christ, to the strangers, that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia. 2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father vnto sanctification of the spirit through obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied vnto you.
THE purpose of the Apostle in this Epistle is to confirm the Christians,1 to whom he writes, in the faith, and to assure them, that it was the true grace of God, they had received, and to persuade them to all possible care of sincerity of life, becoming the Gospel, and to constancy in trials.
THE purpose of the Apostle in this Epistle is to confirme the Christians,1 to whom he writes, in the faith, and to assure them, that it was the true grace of God, they had receiued, and to perswade them to all possible care of sinceritie of life, becomming the Gospell, and to constan•ie in tryalls.
- 1The scope of the Epistle.