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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.
1. How they come to be heirs.
1. How they come to be heires.
2. What their glory is in being so.
1For the first; Christians are not borne Heirs: I mean, not heirs to God, as is intended in this place, but have it by the grace of adoption. God hath but one Heir by generation, and that is Christ: all his other heirs are by adoption, such as he chooseth of his mere Grace, and makes them his heirs. Now, the mystery of our adoption must be considered of in this manner: A Christian by the Gospel is made a Believer: Now faith, after an unspeakable manner, engrafts him into the body of Jesus Christ: Now being engrafted into Jesus Christ, who is Gods Son, he thereby comes to the power to be the son of God, and to be an heir, with Christ. Christ is Gods Heir, and so is all that is grafted upon Christ, Joh. 1.12. Now there is a double Adoption: the one imperfect in this life, the other perfect, which we shall have after the Resurrection of the dead: By the one we have the promise of inheritance, and by the other we shall have full possession. Of the first is mention made, Rom. 8.15. & of the other, Rom. 8.23. the first adoption is meant here.
1For the first; Christians are not borne Heires: I meane, not heires to God, as is intended in this place, but have it by the grace of adoption. God hath but one Heire by generation, and that is Christ: all his other heires are by adoption, such as hee chooseth of his meere Grace, and makes them his heires. Now, the mystery of our adoption must be considered of in this manner: A Christian by the Gospell is made a Believer: Now faith, after an unspeakable manner, engrafts him into the body of Iesus Christ: Now being engrafted into Iesus Christ, who is Gods Sonne, hee thereby comes to the power to be the sonne of God, and to be an heire, with Christ. Christ is Gods Heire, and so is all that is grafted upon Christ,