A17412:786
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.
11 It must be such a knowledge, as discerns God to be the only true God: and this rule excludes the Pagans from eternal life, who though by the light of nature they might discern the invisible things of God, by the works of the creation; yet they so shut up those principles of natural truth in ⟨p. 145⟩unrighteousness, that they set up creatures as God, and gave the glory of the true God to them. Rom. 1.
11 It must be such a knowledge, as discernes God to be the only true God: and this rule excludes the Pagans from eternall life, who though by the light of nature they might discerne the invisible things of God, by the workes of the creation; yet they so shut up those principles of naturall truth in ⟨p. 145⟩unrighteousnesse, that they set up creatures as God, and gave the glorie of the true God to them. Rom. 1.
- 1Which knowledge, must have these properties and effects in it.Which knowledge, must haue these properties and effects in it.
2 It must be such a knowledge as ascribes into the Nature of God such an excellency, as can be expressed by no likeness of any creature in heaven above, or earth beneath, or the waters under the earth. God must not be conceived of by any Images: Images in the Church shut out the Papists from eternal life, and Images in the heart to conceive of God by, excludes the ignorant and carnal Protestants. In the right conceiving of Gods Nature, we must adore him that is like nothing in heaven or earth.