A17412:734
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.
4. The great privileges which Gods adopted children do enjoy even in this life: as,
4. The great priviledges which Gods adopted children doe enjoy even in this life: as,
1 They have within them the spirit of Christ in their hearts, therefore called, The spirit of Adoption, Rom. 8.15, 16. Gal. 4.6. The spirit of Christ, I say, to drive away legal terrors, and to testify to their spirits that they are the sons of God, and that he hath adopted them to heaven, and to make them able to treat with God as a Father, by affectionate prayer• and, as other Scriptures show, to lead them into all truth, and to be the guide of their lives, to tell them when they go out, either on the right hand, or on the left; And ⟨p. 134⟩lastly, to be their continual comforter, John 16. Isaiah 30.
1 They have within them the spirit of Christ in their hearts, therefore called, The spirit of Adoption, Rom. 8.15, 16. Gal. 4.6. The spirit of Christ, I say, to drive away legall terrors, and to testifie to their spirits that they are the sons of God, and that he hath adopted them to heaven, and to make them able to treat with God as a Father, by affectionate prayer• and, as other Scriptures shew, to lead them into all truth, and to bee the guide of their lives, to tell them when they goe out, either on the right hand, or on the left; And