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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.
6. If at any time they fall into distress, they have such interest in Gods special providence, that a hair of their heads shall not fall to the ground without the providence of their heavenly Father. And besides, God will make himself marvellous in their deliverance, if all worldly helps fail, Isaiah 43.18, 19, 20, 21.
6. If at any time they fall into distresse, they have such interest in Gods speciall providence, that a haire of their heads shall not fall to the ground without the providence of their heavenly Father. And besides, God will make himselfe marvellous in their deliverance, if all worldly helpes faile, Esay 43.18, 19, 20, 21.
5. If we consider the wonderful manner of their communion with Christ, and that four ways. For first, we have communion of nature with him, and that by his Incarnation, for he took our nature, and so became our Brother. And this doth nothing at all belong to Reprobates, because Christ took not nature polluted with sin, Heb. 2.14. Yea, we have communion with him in his divine nature, as that nature doth dwell graciously in us, and we are made like unto it, 2. Pet. 1.4. Secondly, they have communion of state with him; which the Scripture acknowledgeth as a great mystery: for so they are said to live with him, to suffer with him, to dye with him, to be buried with him; yea, to rise with him, to ascend to heaven with him, and to sit together with him, Eph. 2. yea, to judge the world with him: only preserving ⟨p. 135⟩the difference between the head and the members in all this. Thirdly, they have communion of offices with him, for he hath made them Kings and Priests with him: The oil that was poured on his head, hath run down upon his members,