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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.
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. Eph. 2.1. 2. Thes. 2.14.
4 If we consider that it is a high calling, the most honourable and most holy of any calling in the world. No greater dignity than to be the called of Jesus Christ: greater in it self than to be an Apostle. Phil. 3.14.
4 If we consider that it is a high calling, the most honourable and most holy of any calling in the world. No greater dignitie than to be the called of Iesus Christ: greater in it selfe than to be an Apostle. Phil. 3.14.