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The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton
The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God Robert Leighton Author:Robert Leighton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: them in suffering. And because the first is the ground-work and support of the other two, this first chapter is much occupied with persuading them of the truth o... more »f the mystery which they had received and did believe, viz., their redemption and salvation by Christ Jesus; that inheritance of immortality bought by his blood for them, and the evidence and stability of their right and title to it. And then he uses this belief, this assurance of the glory to come, as the great persuasive to the other two, both to holy obedience, and constant patience, since nothing can be too much either to forego or undergo, either to do or to sutler, for the attainment of that blessed state. And as, from the consideration of that object and matter of the hope of believers, he encourages to patience, and exhorteth to holiness in this chapter in general, so, in the following chapters, he expresses more particularly, both the universal and special duties of Christians, both in doing and suffering, often setting before those to whom he wrote, the matchless example of the Lord Jesus, and the greatness of their engagement to follow him. In the first two verses, we have the Irucription and Salutation, in the usual style of the Apostolic Epistles. The Inscription hath the author and the address,—from whom, and to whom. The Author of this Epistle is designated by his name— Peter ; and his calling—an apostle. We shall not insist upon his name, that it was imposed by Christ, or what is its signification : this the Evangelists teach us, John i. 42; Matt. xvi. 18. By that which is spoken of him in divers passages of the Gospel, he is very remarkable amongst the Apostles, both for his graces, and his failings ; eminent in zeal and courage, and yet stumbling oft in his forwardness, and once grossly ...« less