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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 1. This second Epistle (beloved) I now write unto you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: Verse 2. That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy Prophets, and of the commandment of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour.
Verse 1. This second Epistle (beloved) I now write unto you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: Verse 2. That ye may be mindfull of the words which were spoken before by the holy Prophets, and of the commandement of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour.
The Analysis.
The Apostle now making haste to the end of the Epistle, 1 Repeats the scope and aim that he had in writing, in the 1 & 2 verse. 2 He doth again describe those men, of whom he writes this Epistle, that they should beware, verse 3, 4. 3 He refutes their blasphemies, from verse 5. to verse 11. 4 He shows the use and fruit of his doctrine, which all the faithful should make of it, from verse 11 to the end. In repeating the end and scope of the Epistle he sets it forth and describes it, 1 By the genus, that it is a putting in remembrance. 2 By the effect, that it stirs up. 3. By the object, that it was directed unto them, that had a pure mind. 4 By the means how to obtain this effect, namely, those things which were spoken before by the Prophets, and commanded by the Apostles, verse 2. 5 By the manner how all these things might be made the more effectual: to which purpose he useth a kind of illustration, namely, that this putting in remembrance was iterated and repeated with an earnest vehemency. This second Epistle I write, and that with a fatherly kind of love, which is intimated