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The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow (1); To Which Is Prefixed a Life of the Author
The Whole Works of Robert Leighton Archbishop of Glasgow To Which Is Prefixed a Life of the Author - 1 Author:Robert Leighton Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: James Duncan Subjects: Theology Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Theology Notes: This is a bl... more »ack and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PRACTICAL COMMENTARY UPO. V THR FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL ST. PETER. Chapter I. Verse 1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pnntiis, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. L HE grace of God in the heart of man, is a tender plant in a strange unkindly soil; and therefore cannot well prosper and grow, without much care and pains, and that of a skilful hand, and which hath the art of cherishing it: for this end hath God given the constant ministry of the word to his Church, not only for the first work of conversion, but also for confirming and increasing of his grace in the hearts of his children. And though the extraordinary ministers of the Gospel, the Apostles, had principally the former for their charge -- the converting of unbelievers, Jews and Gentiles, and so the planting of churches, to be after kept, and watered by others, (as the ajxstle intimates, 1 Cor. iii. 6.;) yet did they not neglect the other work of strengthening the grace of God begun in the new converts of those times, both by revisiting them, and exhorting them in person, as they could, and by the supply of their writing to them when absent. Vol. I. B And the benefit of this extends (not by accident, but by the purpose and good providence of God) to the Church of God in all succeeding ages. This excellent Epistle (full of evangelical doctrine and apo...« less