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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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Use 1. This may serve to refute the Papists, who maintain• ignorance and commend it in the common people: they are sufficiently refuted by him, from whom they boast that they have received the Chair, free from all error. For Peter in thi• place, 1 Requires knowledge of all the faithful, yea, an• fore-knowledge too of those things whereby they might b• confirmed against profane men and false teachers. 2 He presupposeth that all that were truly faithful to whom this Epistle came, were already endued with this knowledge. 3 H• presupposeth that his Epistles were so clear and so easy to b• understood that all the faithful which should read them wit• godly minds, might understand out of them, and consequently out of the Scriptures, those things, whereby they being forewarned, might be fore-armed against those false deceiver• whereof he spake.
Vse 1. This may serve to refute the Papists, who maintain• ignorance and commend it in the common people: they are sufficiently refuted by him, from whom they boast that they have received the Chaire, free from all error. For Peter in thi• place, 1 Requires knowledge of all the faithfull, yea, an• fore-knowledge too of those things whereby they might b• confirmed against profane men and false teachers. 2 He pre•supposeth that all that were truly faithfull to whom this Epi•stle came, were already endued with this knowledge. 3 H• presupposeth that his Epistles were so cleare and so ea•ie to b• understood that all the faithfull which should read them wit• godly minds, might understand out of them, and consequently out of the Scriptures, those things, whereby they bein forewarned, might be fore-armed against those false deceiver whereof he spake.