A17412:736
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. By the right of their Adoption in Christ, both their persons and their works are accepted before God, so as they stand always high in Gods favour, howsoever they are entertained in the world, Eph. 1.6.
2. By the right of their Adoption in Christ, both their persons and their workes are accepted before God, so as they stand alwaies high in Gods favour, howsoever they are entertained in the world, Eph. 1.6.
3. They have a name, and honour, shall never be taken from them; an everlasting name: no preferment so high as theirs, Isaiah 56.4, 5. And this is the greater privilege, because no meanness or contemptibleness of condition on earth can bar them from the enjoying of this prerogative, as the coherence of that place shows.
3. They have a name, and honour, shall never bee taken from them; an everlasting name: no preferment so high as theirs, Esay 56.4, 5. And this is the greater priviledge, because no meannesse or contemptiblenesse of condition on earth can barre them from the enjoying of this prerogative, as the coherence of that place shewes.
4. They have the Angels of heaven to attend them: God shows by that, that he will have them looked unto as his sons and heirs, Heb. 1. ult.
4. They have the Angells of heaven to attend them: God shewes by that, that hee will have them looked unto as his sonnes and heires,