Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers

1 PETER iv.19. Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creator.

This Epistle was written to Saints in affliction, specially those of the Circumcision, for whom this Peter was an Apostle. And it was written to them to counsel, and comfort them in their ⟨p. 2⟩affliction. To counsel them as to the cause, for which they were in afflictions, and as to the right management of themselves, and their cause under their affliction.

THis Epistle was written to Saints in affliction, specially those of the Circumcision, for whom this Peter was an Apostle. And it was written to them to counsel, and comfort them in their ⟨p. 2⟩affliction. To counsel them as to the cause, for which they were in afflictions, and as to the right management of themselves, and their cause under their affliction.

To comfort them also both with respect to their present help from God, and also with reference to the reward that (they faithfully continuing to the end) should of God be bestowed upon them: all which we shall have occasion, more distinctly, to handle in this following discourse.