A17412:1158
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 That Gods elect by Nature are not in a blessed estate. They are called to it, not borne to it: it is a preferment they are advanced to, by means of their receiving of the Gospel, ⟨p. 213⟩and the sincerity of true Religion. Their religion, not their parents or their own endeavours, helps them to it: by nature they are in a miserable case, both in respect of unholiness and unhappiness, Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3, 1 2. Tit. 3.3. And this is fit for them to know, that they may be the more stirred up to magnify the free grace of God, and to love the Gospel, and that they may be the more humble in themselves, and strive to walk worthy of so excellent a calling, and use all means that God hath appointed, to increase more and more in blessing: And unregenerate men must likewise hence take notice, that they can never inherit blessing, unless they repent: for calling is the door of blessing,
2 That Gods elect by Nature are not in a blessed estate. They are called to it, not borne to it: it is a preferment they are advanced to, by meanes of their receiving of the Gospell, ⟨p. 213⟩and the sinceritie of true Religion. Their religion, not their parents or their owne endevours, helps them to it: by nature they are in a miserable case, both in respect of unholinesse and unhappinesse, Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3, 1 2. Tit. 3.3. And this is fit for them to know, that they may be the more stirred up to magnifie the free grace of God, and to love the Gospell, and that they may be the more humble in themselves, and strive to walke worthie of so excellent a calling, and use all meanes that God hath appointed, to encrease more and more in blessing: And unregenerate men must likewise hence take notice, that they can never inherite blessing, unlesse they repent: for calling is the doore of blessing,