A17412:747
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.
And that we may be the more established in the knowledge of our Adoption, it will be good for us to try our selves by the signs of such as are Gods adopted children.
And that we may be the more established in the knowledge of our Adoption, it will bee good for us to try our selves by the signes of such as are Gods adopted children.
11 Such as are Gods children by Adoption, have this mark, They are made like unto God their Father, in holiness, in some truth of resemblance, 1. Pet. 1.25. And this they show two ⟨p. 137⟩ways: first, by purifying themselves, and sound humbling of their souls for their sins, that deface the Image of God in them: as Saint John saith; Every one that hath this hope, purifieth himself, as he is pure, 1. Joh. 3.2, 3. Secondly, by employing himself constantly in doing righteousness; for hereby the children of God are known from the children of the Devil, 1. Joh. 3.10.
11 Such as are Gods children by Adoption, haue this marke, They are made like unto God their Father, in holiness, in some truth of resemblance, 1. Pet. 1.25. And this they shew two ⟨p. 137⟩waies: first, by purifying themselves, and sound humbling of their soules for their sinnes, that deface the Image of God in them: as Saint Iohn saith; Every one that hath this hope, purifyeth himselfe, as he is pure,