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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.
Thus of the Exposition. The reasons follow; and the first is, Because they are the weaker vessel.
Thus of the Exposition. The reasons follow; and the first is, Because they are the weaker vessell.
As the weaker vessel.] The word translated Vessel, is diversly accepted in Scripture; sometimes properly, sometime Metaphorically. As it is taken properly, it is sometime taken for goods or any household-stuff, Mat. 12.29. Luk. 17.31. Sometimes again it signifies any instrument, used in the house or without the house: so the instruments used in the Temple about any part of Gods service, were called Vessels of the Ministry, Heb. 9.21. So a Bushel is called a Vessel, Luke 8.16. So that which held the four-footed beasts and fowls, &c. in the vision, Acts 10.11, 16. is called a Vessel, yet like a sheet: so is a sail of a ship called by this term, Acts 27.17. Now in a Metaphorical sense, this term signifies, either the parts or members of the body of man or woman that serve for generation, 1. Thes. 4.4. or else it signifies any person, that God hath set apart for some special service or ministration. Thus Paul was a Vessel of election, or a chosen Vessel to bear Gods Name among the Gentiles, and Kings, and the people of Israel, Acts 9.15. Or else such persons, upon whom God will declare either his mercy or Justice. Thus Vessels of honour