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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.
Thus of the third point, viz. the Cause of inheriting. The manner follows, viz. They inherit together.
Together.] The godly are heirs together: their inheritance lies all together. Which may appear by reckoning up the particular privileges of the godly, in which they all meet, and are joint heirs, and fellow heirs, as the Apostle calls them, Rom. 8.17. Eph. 3.6. Christians hold their inheritance ⟨p. 169⟩in Gavelkind; I think that is the term the Lawyers give for that tenure, where all the brethren have the same inheritance divided amongst them, and all alike heirs. And as they are so in the matter they inherit, so in the manner of coming to their right: for they are all the children of God, and children by Adoption, and not by natural generation; so Christ only is Gods heir.
Together.] The godly are heires together: their inheritance lies all together. Which may appeare by reckoning up the particular priviledges of the godly, in which they all meet, and are joynt heires, and fellow heires, as the Apostle calls them, Rom. 8.17. Eph. 3.6. Christians hold their inheritance ⟨p. 169⟩in Gavelkinde; I thinke that is the tearme the Lawyers give for that tenure, where all the brethren have the same inheritance divided amongst them, and all alike heires. And as they are so in the matter they inherit, so in the manner of comming to their right: for they are all the children of God, and children by Adoption, and not by naturall generation; so Christ onely is Gods heire.