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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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Verse 12. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be stablished in the present truth. Verse 13. Yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance: Verse 14. Knowing that shortly, I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. Verse 15. Moreover, I will endeavour, that you may be able after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.
Verse 12. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you alwayes in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be stablished in the present truth. Verse 13. Yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you up, by putting you in remembrance: Verse 14. Knowing that shortly, I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me. Verse 15. Moreover, I will endeavour, that you may be able after my decease, to have these things alwayes in rem•mbrance.
The Analysis.
IN the former words the Apostle had given a reason of his exhortation, why all the faithful should embrace it: and in these words he gives a reason of the same, why he should use it unto them; which reason he delivers by way of anticipation, whereby he meets with a close objection by a kind of modest excuse, or by removing the cause which they might suspect, why he should put them in remembrance of these things, namely, because he did think they were ignorant and unstable. Now he shows that this was not the cause, in these words, though ye know them, and be stablished in the present truth. And then he brings divers true causes that moved him to make this exhortation unto them. 1. The great profit that would redound unto them by the performance of these duties whereunto he exhorts them. This reason is intimated in that causal particle, whereby he joins these words with the former, wherefore, that is, for those benefits sake which you shall receive by this means, I thought it my part to put you