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Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle…
Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithful and painful minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithfull and painfull minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great varietie of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinitie largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.
London: printed by H. Lownes for George Latham, 1626
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.
2 If we consider from what we were called: from gross darkness, 2. Pet. 1.9. from this present evil world, Gal. 1. from the lump of forlorn mankind, from innumerable sins ⟨p. 206⟩and curses, from the danger of eternal damnation of body and soul for ever.
2 If we consider from what we were called: from grosse darkenesse, 2. Pet. 1.9. from this present evill world, Gal. 1. from the lumpe of forlorne mankinde, from innumerable sins ⟨p. 206⟩and curses, from the danger of eternall damnation of body and soule for ever.
3 If we consider the wonder of the means of our calling; which is by the Gospel, which is the voice of Christ, raising us out of the graves of sin: even that voice that shall make mens dead bodies rise at the last day, doth now raise the dead souls of men in this world. One resurrection in this life, another at the day of judgement. Eph. 2.1. 2. Thes. 2.14.
3 If we consider the wonder of the meanes of our calling; which is by the Gospell, which is the voice of Christ, raising us out of the graves of sinne: even that voyce that shall make mens dead bodies rise at the last day, doth now raise the dead soules of men in this world. One resurrection in this life, another at the day of judgement.