A25280:1871
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 5. And spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a Preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
Verse 5. And spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a Preacher of righteousnesse, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
The Analysis.
The second and third example of Gods justice towards sinners are not barely propounded, as the first was, but are illustrated by different examples, or by examples of Gods mercy, which he showed towards the godly, while he destroyed the wicked. The reason is, that both parts of the conclusion, which is set down, verse 9. might be fitly inferred; where the deliverance of the godly is joined together with the destruction of the wicked. In the former of these examples is set down, 1 The object of Gods justice, materially, the old world, which is more formally explained by the adjunct of impiety, whence it is called the world of the ungodly. 2. This justice is also illustrated by the instrument thereof, namely, the bringing in of the flood upon the world of the ungodly. The object of Gods mercy is made to be Noah with his family: who are described, 1 By their small number, wherein his family was contained, which is said to be eight. This Peter shows, 1 Epist. c. 3. v. 20. 2 By the effect, that he was a Preacher of righteousness. For the office or duty is not here commended, but the act or exercise of this duty. For the duty was common to him with many mor•, but the exercise of it was proper unto himself.