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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17411	Sermons vpon the first chapter of the first epistle generall of Peter Wherein method, sense, doctrine and vse is with great varietie of matter profitably handled. By Nicholas Byfeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex. The rest of the epistle may be published in due time, if God will.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.	1617 (1617)	STC 4234; ESTC S120373	55,966	106

as to the Apostleship Election imports a singling of a man from some thing that is vile and miserable and so the godly are elect from the masse of condemned men in Adam and from vnder the power of Sathan and the kingdome of darknes from the first death from the company of euill men from the tyrannie of sinnes of all sorts from the rigor and curse of the law and eternall condemnation These Elect men are not to be knowne by their numbers wit wealth nobilitie beauty personage nor by their presence paines or prioritie in Gods vineyard but they are to bee knowne both by their birth and by their life By their birth and so they may be knowne for they are borne of God borne by promise borne againe they are then called and conver●ed of God Rom 8. 30. By their life they may be knowne for they d●part from in●quitie and call vpon the name of the Lord 2 Tim 2. 19. they are fruitfull in well-doing and their fruits remaine Ioh 15. 16 they are holy and 〈◊〉 Eph 1. 4 they beare the ●mage of the Senne of God both in holinesse and sufferings ●or holines Rom 8. 29. They ●●ound in faith vertue godlines knowledge temperance pa●●ence brot●erly 〈…〉 2 Pet 1. 5 6. 10. These Elect men haue admirable feli●ities and priuiledges aboue all the men in the world For 1. They haue most deare acceptatio● with God in his beloued ●ph 1●5 they are his delight Psal 132. 13 his chiefe treasure Ps 135. 4 his peculiar people Deut 7. 6. 26. 18. 2. They are adopted to bee the children and heires of God in Christ 〈◊〉 1. 4. 3. They haue the pleasures of Gods house Ps 65. 4 5. 4. In adver●●tie they are sure of countenance Esay 41. 8 9 Protec●ion v 10 the au●nging of their wrongs Esay 41. 11 12. Luk. 18. 8. deliuerance and 〈◊〉 Zach 1. 17. 20. 21. 5. The non-suting of all actions and accusations in heauen against them Rom 8. 35. 6. They are made the friends of God and from thence haue audience in all sutes and communication of the secrets of God Ioh 15. 15 16. Deut 4. 7. 37. 7. They are assured of preseruation to the end Ma●th 24. 8. They shall obtaine glory in Iesus Christ being chosen to saluation 2 Thess 2. 13 14 15. Hence we● may informe our selues 1. That there is a choice God did not driue in whole N●tions Cities Townes c but a certaine number of them 2. That the doctrine of Election may be taught It is true that it is in some respects strong meat and hath in some things an Abyssus It should also inflame in euery one of vs both praises and prayers to God that he would aboue all things remember vs with the fauour of his people● and comfort vs with the ioy of his chosen and abo●● all care to care to make our calling and election sure 2 Pet 1. 10. What shall it profit a man to be sure of his house money lands c. and not to be sure of the saluation of his soule Know yee not that Christ Iesus is in you except you bee repr●bates 2. 〈◊〉 13. 5. Such as finde by the signes their Election should abound in all possible thankfulnes to God 2 Thess. 2. 13. c. Further hath God chosen vs and shall wee not liue like Gods Flect It should teach vs to indeuour to shew by our works that we are chosen of God separating our selues from the wicked and holding forth the light of the truth in all vnrebukablenes of holy conversation not being discouraged with ill entertainment in the world Deut 10. 12. to 18. 14. 1. 26. 16. c. Eph 1. 5. 2. 10. Ioh 〈…〉 20. c. 〈…〉 learne not to be ashamed of Gods Flect but choose vnto vs whom God hath chosen to him choose them I say both to honor them and to sort with them and to countenance them and defend them Ministers should acknowledge these in their teaching and great men in 〈◊〉 This also may be a doctrine of singular terror to wicked men that will not bee gathered and call'd by the meanes of saluation Esay 66. 4 5. If it be such a felicitie to be chosen of God what miserie is it then to be reiected of God for euer If such a ●exation to be disgraced and scorned of great men what is it then to be reiected of the great God and this is the more wofull if the fore-runner of the full declaration of it be vpon men I meane a spirit of slumber Rom 11. 7. 10. And thus of Election This Election is first amplified by the ground of it which is the fore-knowledge of God According to fore-knowledge Prascience or fore-knowledge in God is considered more largely or more strictly more largely and so it notes the whole act of praordination so in the 20 verse of this chapter it is rendred ordained more strictly and properly for the knowledge of God praeceding in order the appointment to the end and thus it is taken two waies For there is a praescience they call in schooles absolute by which God from eternitie doth know all things simply and absolutely so the word is vsed 2 Pet 3. 17 There is also a praescience they call speciall by which God not onely knoweth the Elect as he knoweth other things but acknowledgeth them for his and loues them aboue all others and this is called the knowledge of approbation Rom 8. 27. 11. 2. In the first sense there is difference betweene Fore-knowledge Prouidence and Predestination Praescience reacheth to all things to be done either by God or any other and so to sinnes Prouidence reacheth to all that God would doe Praedestination only to the counsell of God about reasonable creatures Quest. If any aske after what manner God views things or lookes vpon them or knowes them Ans I answer that we are not able to expresse the manner of d●uine knowledge vnlesse it be by way of negat●on that is by d●nying to God those wayes of knowledge which are in the creatures and note imperfection For God doth not know things 1. By sense as by hearing seeing tasting c For these thing● are in God onely by an Anthropop●t●y or Metaphore 2. By opinion or coniecture For that knowledge is neither certaine nor euident and therefore cannot be in God 3. By faith For God knowes nothing by relation or report of others Besides though faith be a certaine knowledge yet it is not euident Heb. 11. 1 4. By Arte For God doth not know things by de●ining diuiding compounding or reasoning 5. Successiuely For God knowes all things in one view and not one after another 6. Nor lastly by Images but by his essence by a way more excellent aboue all Men or Angells by a knowledge most true certaine euident and per●e●t In this fore-knowledge of God is as in a booke recorded the person●