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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 It may wonderfully embolden us, in our suites and requests to go to Gods Throne, seeing it is a Throne of grace, where petitions are granted freely, and great suits as easily as lesser, Heb. 4.16.
6 It may wonderfully embolden us, in our suites and requests to goe to Gods Throne, seeing it is a Throne of grace, where petitions are granted freely, and great suits as easily as lesser, Heb. 4.16.
7 Men should be warned to take heed that they do not transgress against this doctrine of the grace of God. And men sin against the grace of God fearfully, four ways. First,1 when they frustrate it in the doctrine of it: which they do, partly when they receive the doctrine of it in vain, and fail of the right knowledge of it, 2. Cor. 6.1. Hebr. 12. 15. partly when they trust upon the merits of their own works, Gal. 2. ult. Secondly, when they fall away from grace, either by relapsing to the world, by entertaining the corruptions they had forsaken, or by removing the sincere doctrine of Gods grace, Gal. 5.4. Thirdly, when men turn the grace of God into wantonness, and draw wicked and licentious conclusions from the pure doctrine of Gods grace, making it a cloak for their sinful liberties, Jud. 1.4. Rom. 6.1. Fourthly, when men despite the Spirit of grace, that shows it self, either in the power of Gods ordinances, or in the practise of true Christians,