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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.
But it is not Natural life is here meant, but Spiritual life, called in Scripture, New life, and the Life of God, and eternal Life. The words of the Apostle Paul, Tit. 3.7. when he saith, We are heirs according to the hope of eternal life, serve to expound these words of the Apostle Peter.
But it is not Naturall life is here meant, but Spirituall life, called in Scripture, New life, and the Life of God, and eternall Life. The words of the Apostle Paul, Tit. 3.7. when hee saith, We are heires according to the hope of eternall life, serve to expound these words of the Apostle Peter.
Now concerning this life, it is above the reach of all mortal creatures to describe it as it is, especially in the perfection of it in heaven; for Saint Paul saith, of what he saw in heaven, that he saw things that could not be uttered, 2. Cor. 12. ⟨p. 141⟩and Saint John saith; It doth not appear what we shall be, 1. Joh. 3.2. And in the 1. Cor. 2.9. it is said; that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive of, what God hath prepared for them that love him: Yea, Christ himself doth seem to grant; that, as Man, he did not fully see the glory of this eternal life, in his mortal condition, where speaking of his estate after death, he said; Thou wilt show me the paths of life, Act. 2.