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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

passeth all vnderstanding to keep●●● heart and minde Phil 4. 6. 7. 5 Thou must make much of the beginnin●● 〈◊〉 desires ioy liking and care of the meanes of 〈◊〉 and not let them go out so as thou 〈◊〉 faile of the grace of God or receiue those graces 〈◊〉 vaine 6 Thou must be resolued vpon it to deny 〈◊〉 godlinesse and worldy lusts and to liue 〈◊〉 and religiously and soberly in this present world 〈◊〉 thou canst neuer meete with true peace further 〈◊〉 thou art good and true in thy heart and as 〈◊〉 ●●●creasest in the care of reformation in thy life 〈◊〉 shalt thou increase in euery good and perfect 〈◊〉 till thou come to a ripe age in Iesus Christ Tit. 2. 1 〈◊〉 Esay 32. 16. Psal. 125. vlt. This likewise may be comfortable to a 〈◊〉 Christian and that two waies 1 First If he consider that grace is not giue● 〈◊〉 at once but by degrees and therefore he must 〈◊〉 be discouraged though he haue many wants 2 Secondly if he consider the bountifuln●● God to all that seeke grace and peace it may 〈◊〉 had in abundance For the Apostle implies 〈◊〉 God will multiply grace and peace if wee be 〈◊〉 in the vse of the meanes and glorifie him 〈◊〉 seeking to him he will giue liberally and 〈…〉 man And thus much of the Salutation Vers. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a li●ely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead HEtherto of the salutation the substance or the body of the Epistle followes the doctrine whereof is two waies to be considered 1 as it is propounded 2 as it is repeated Three things are principally propounded and the same also repeated or gone ouer againe For there is first matter of consolation 2 Matter of exhortation 3 Matter of dehortation The consolation is from this third verse to the thirteenth of this Chapter The Exhortation is from vers 13. of this Chapter to vers eight of the 3. chap. The Dehortation is from v 8. of the 3. chap. to the end of that chapter Then doth the Apostle a little changing the order go ouer the same three things againe For hee exhorts from vers 1. of chap. 4. to the 12. vers of the same chap. and then he comforts from vers 12. to the end of the 4. chap. and the Dehortation hee lodgeth vnder request to the Elders and the people chap. 5. 1. to 12. In this first part he intends to comfort where I consider first the Proposition of comfort vers 3. 4. 5. Secondly and the confirmation of that comfort vers 6. to the 13. In the Proposition I obserue first the manner of propounding and the arguments themselues by which he would comfort The manner of the Proposition is that it is expressed in forme of thankesgiuing in these words blessed be the God and father of our Lord Iesus Christ. The arguments of consolation are 3. The first is taken from our Regeneration vers 3. the second from our Glorification vers 4. the third from our Preseruation vnto glory vers 5. Blessed bee the God c. Two things I obserue from the coherence of these words First that a Christian can be in no such distresse but hee hath still cause to be thankfull to God for many blessings though he be a stranger and vsed like a stranger though he be scattered and driuen to and fro yet in all the daies of his dispersion he may obser●e many memorable things for which hee ought to blesse God Secondly that a Christian should neuer thinke of spirituall blessings but his heart should kindle in him with desire to praise God for them Blessing is diuersly taken or carried sometimes man blesseth man sometimes God blesseth man sometimes man is said to blesse God and so here Man blesseth God three waies 1 In his heart when being refreshed with Gods fauour and inflamed with the ioyes of his presence and nourished with the sence of his blessings hee doth lift vp his heart within him inwardly with affection striuing to laud God and acknowledge his mercy 2. In his tongue when he taken to him words and openeth his lippes to confesse and praise God either in secret or openly either priuately or publikely 3 In his works and that ● waies When hee sets vp memorialls of Gods great workes or deliuerances 2 When hee receiues the Sacrament setting himselfe apart to celebrate the memory of Christs death by which the couenant of God was confirmed and the fountaine of all grace opened Da●id when he would render thankes vnto God takes the cuppe of saluation And the Sacrament is called the E●charist from giuing of thankes and so the cuppe is called the cuppe of blessing 3 By the obedience of his life striuing to glorifie God in a holy conuersation 4 And lastly by shewing mercy and thereby causing the hearts and liues of other to blesse God Great reason hath man to blesse God 1 For God is blessednesse it selfe and whether should the water runne but into the sea from whence it is originally taken 2 Besides the Lord hath required our praise as the chiefe meanes of glorifying him 3 And thirdly he hath blessed vs and therefore we haue great reason to blesse him Hee hath blessed vs in the Creatures blessed the worke of our hands blessed the fruite of our loines blessed vs in his s●nne blessed vs by his Angells blessed vs by his Ministers blessed vs in the blessings of the Gospell and blessed vs in the fruites of the earth blessed vs in his house and in our owne houses blessed vs in our Sabboths Sacraments the Word Praier c. blessed vs in our soules bodies states names c. And therefore let the people praise thee ô God yea let all the people praise thee All thy workes praise thee and the Saints shall 〈◊〉 of thy praise and of th● glory of thy power and the maiesty of thy king dome The God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ c. This periphrasis is vsed to distinguish our God from the god of Turkes Iewes and Pagans The Lord was vsed to be knowne to the olde Church by the names of the God of Ahraham the God of Isaack and the God of Iacob but now in the Church of the Christians hee is celebrated by the name of the God and father of our Lord Iesus Christ. Two things are here affirmed 1 that God is the God of Christ. 2 That hee is the Father of Christ It is not against the vse of Scripture to say that God is the God of Christ for Ioh. 20. 1. Christ saith I go to your God and to my God and Psal. 45. 7. It is said to Christ God euen thy God hath annointed thee with the oyle of glad●esse aboue thy fellowes Now if any aske how this can be that God is the God