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Wicked rich men threatened.

A. D. about 60.

y Acts 18. 21. 1 Cor. 4. 19. & 16. 7. Heb. 6. 3. ■ 1 Cor. 5. 6. a Luke 12. 47. John 9. 41. & 15. 22, Rom. 1. 20, 21, 32. & 2. 17, 18, 23.

a Prov. 11. 28. Luke 6. 21.

1 Tim. 6. 9.

b Job 13. 28. Matt. 6. 20. sh. 2. 2.

e Rom. 2. 5.

I. PETER.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore a to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

CHAPTER V.

1 Wicked rich men are to fear God's vengeance. 7 We ought to be patient in afflic tions, after the example of the prophets, and Job: 12 to forbear swearing, 13 to pray in adversity, to sing in prosperity: 16 to acknowledge mutually our several faults, to pray one for another, 19 and to reduce a straying brother to the truth. O to now, ye rich men, weep

Exhortation to patience.

demned: behold, the judge 1standeth before the door.

A. D. about 60.

1 Matt. 24. 33. 1 Cor. 4. 5.

m Matt. 5. 12. Heb. 11. 35, &c.

n Pa. 94. 12. Matt. 5. 10. 11. & 10. 22. o Job 1. 21, 22 & 2. 10.

10 m Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen Pthe end of the Lord; that "the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my breth- pJob 42, 10, ren, "swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? "let him

G and howl for your miseries that sing psalms.

shall come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and byour garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped Lev. 19. 13. treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud. crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Job 24.10.11.

Jer. 22. 13.
Mal. 3. 5.

e Deut. 24 15. f Job 21. 13.

Amos 6 1.4. Luke 18. 19, 25.

1 Tim. 5. 6. gch. 2. 6.

Or, Belong patient, or, Suffer with long patience.

h Deut. 11.14. Jer. 5, 24. Hos. 6, 3, Joel 2. 23. Zech. 10. 1. i Phil. 4 5. Heb. 10, 25, 37.

1 Pet. 4. 7. k ch. 4. 11. Or, Groan, or, Grieve not.

A. D. about GO.

a John 7, 35, Acts 2.5, 9. 10. James 1. 1.

5f Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

65 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

9 | Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be con

&c.

q Num. 14.18 P. 103. 8.

r Matt. 5. 34. &c.

■ Eph. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16.

14 18 any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing Mark 6. 13. him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; "and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 And bhe prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way d shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

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u Is. 33. 24.
Matt, 9. 2

x Gen. 20. 17. Num. 11. 2 Deut. 9. 18, 19. 20. Josh. 10. 12. 1 Sam. 12.18 1 Kin. 13 6. 2 Kin. 4. 33. & 19. 15 90 & 20. 2.4.&c. Pa. 10. 17. & 84. 15. & 145. 18. Prov. 15, 29. & 25. 9. John 9. 31. 1 John 3.22 y Aeta 14. 15.

Kin. 17. 1.

I Or, in his prayer. Luko 4. 25. blKin. 18.42, 45.

e Matt, 18.15. d Rom. 11.14. 1 Cor. 9. 22 1 Tim. 4. 16. e Prov. 10. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 8.

A. D. about GO.

b Eph. 1.4 ch. 2. 9.

tered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 26 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, d through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace Thess.2.13 unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father scat-Rom. 1.7. 2 Pet. 1. 2. Jude 2 2 Cor. 1. 3. Eph. 1. 3.

ual graces: 10 shewing that the salvation in Christ is no news, but a thing prophesied of old: 13 and exhorteth them accordingly to a godly conversation, forasmuch as they are now born anew by the word of God.

PETER, an

a

apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers

e Rom. & 29. & 11.2.

Heh, 10, 22. & 12.24,

Exhortation to holiness,

A. D.

about 00.

Tie. 3. 5. ↑ Gr. much. iJohn 3. 3. S. James 1. 18. k1 Cor. 15 20.

I. PETER.

of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy i hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not 1The 4.14. away, "reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

eb. 3. 21. Ich. 5. 4. m Col. 1. 5. 2 Tim. 4. 8. ¡Or, for us. n John 10.28. 29. & 17. 11. 12. 15. Jude 1. Matt. 5. 12. Rom. 1. 12. 2 Cor. 6. 10. ch. 4. 13.

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

7 Thut the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried P2 Cor. 4. 17. with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

ch. 5. 10.

James 1. 2. r James 1. 3. 12. eb. 4. 12.

Job 23. 10, Ps. 66, 10. Prov. 17.3. Is. 48. 10. Zech. 13,9, 1 Cor. 3. 13.

8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10 Of which salvation the prophets Rom. 27.10. have inquired and searched diligent2 Thess. 1.7ly, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

1 Cor. 4. 5.

12.

ul John 4.20. x John 20, 29. 2 Cor. 5. 7. Heb. 11.1.27. 7 Rom. 6. 22. z Gen. 49. 10. Dan. 2. 41. Hag. 2. 7. Zech. 6. 12. Matt. 13. 17. Luke 10. 24. 2 Pet. 1. 19, 20, 21. ach. 3, 19.

2 Pet. 1. 21. b Ps. 22. 6. Is. 53. 3, &c. Dan. 9. 26. Luke 24. 25, 26, 44, 46. John 12. 41. Acts 28. 22, 23.

e Dan. 9. 24. & 12, 9, 13.

d Heb. 11. 13, 39, 40.

• Acts 2. 4. 1 Ex. 25. 20, Dan. 8. 13. & 12.5, 6. Eph. 3. 10. g Luke 12. 35. Eph. 6. 14.

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand bthe sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that d not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;

which things the angels desire to

look into.

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, b be sober, and hope ito the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you i at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

14 As obedient children, knot fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your igno

rance:

15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, "Be ye h Luke 21.34. holy; for I am holy.

Rom. 13. 13. 1 Thess. 5, 6,

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17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons Ch. 4.7.& 5.8. judgeth according to every man's work, P pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

↑ Gr. perfectly.

1 Luke 17. 30. 1 Cor. 1. 7.

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corrupt2 Thess. 1.7.ible things, as silver and gold, from

k Rom. 12. 2.

ch. 4. 2. 1 Acts 17. 30. 1 Thess. 4.5. m Luke 1. 74. 75. 2 Cor. 7. 1.1 Thess. 4. 3, 4, 7. Heb. 12. 14. 2 Pet. 3. 11. n Lev. 11. 44.

& 19. 2. & 20. 7. o Deut. 10. 17. Acts 10. 31. Rom. 2. 11 p2 Cor. 7. 1. Phil. 2. 12. Heb. 12. 28. q 2 Cor. 5. 6. Heb. 11. 13. eh, 2. 11. 1 Cor. 6, 20. & 7. 23.

and to mutual love.

your vain conversation received by 1 tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, "as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 d Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

24 For fall flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

A. D. about 60.

•Ea. 20. 15.
ch. 4. 3.

tActa 20. 28.
Eph. 1. 7.
Heb. 9.12,14.
Bev. 5. 9.

Ex. 12.6.
1. 53. 7.
John 1. 29,
26.
1 Cor. 5. 7.

Rom. 3. 25
& 16. 25, 6
Eph. 3. 9. 11.
Col. 1. 2.
2 Tim. 1. 9,
10.

Tit. 1. 2. 3. Rev. 13. 8. y Gal. 4. 4. Eph. 1.10. Heb. 1. 2. & 9. 26.

■ Acta 2. 24. a Matt. 28. 18. Acts 2. 33. & 3. 13. Eph. 1. 20. Phil. 2. 9. Heb. 2. 9.

ch. 3. 22.

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WHEREFORE laying aside all Eph. 4. 22. malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

2 bAs newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

3 If so be ye have d tasted that the Lord is gracious.

4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

5 f Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, ba holy priesthood, to offer up ispiritual sacrifices, k acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, 1 Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, clect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

lieve he is precious: but unto 7 Unto you therefore which bethem which be disobedient, m the stone which the builders disallowed,

16. k Phil. 4. 18. ch. 4. 11. 1 Ts. 29. 16. Rom. 9. honour. m Ps. 118. 22. Matt. 21. 42. Acts 4. 11.

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Christ the chief corner stone.

A. D. about 60,

a Is. 8. 14. Luke 2, 31. Rom. 9. 33. ol Cor. 1. 23. pEx. 9. 16. Rom. 9. 22.

1 Thess. 5. 9. Jude 4.

q Deut. 10.15.

ch. 1. 2.

Ex. 19.56

Rev. 1. 6. & 6. 10.

John 17, 19. 1 Cor. 3. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 9.

t Deut. 4. 20. &7.6.& 14.2. & 26. 18, 19. Acta 20. 28. Eph. 1. 14. Tit. 2. 11.

Or, a pur chased people. [Or, virtues.

■ Acts 25. 18.

Eph. 5. 8.
Col. 1. 13.

1 Thess. 5. 4,

5.

Hos,1.9, 10.

& 2. 23. Rom. 9. 25.

y 1 Chr.29.15.
Ps. 39. 12. &

119. 19.
Heb. 11. 13.
ch. 1. 17.

Rom. 13. 14.

Gal, 5. 16.

a James 4. 1.

b Rom. 12,17,
2 Cor. 8. 21.
Phil. 2. 15.
Tit. 2. 8.
ch. 3. 16.

Or, wherein.
o Matt. 5. 16.
d Luke 19.44.
• Matt. 22. 21.
Rom. 13. 1.
Tit. 3. 1.
fRom. 13. 4.
g Rom. 13. 3.
hTit. 2. 8.
ver. 12.

i Gal. 5. 1, 13.

I. PETER.

the same is made the head of the

corner,

8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed.

9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of "darkness into his marvellous light:

10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11 Dearly beloved, 1 beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, "abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 b Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God d in the day of visitation.

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him f for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.

15 For so is the will of God, that h with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish

men:

16 As free, and not † using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as k the servants of God.

17 || Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. "Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Duties of wives and husbands. himself to him that judgeth righteously:

24 *Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: bby whose stripes ye were healed.

A. D. about 60.

s Is. 53, 4, 5, 6.
11.
Matt. 8. 17.
Heb. 9, 28.
Or, to.

25 For ye were as sheep going a Rom.6.2.11. astray; but are now returned d'unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

& 7. 6. b La. 53. 5. cls. 53. 6. Es. 34. 6.

a Ex. 34, 23. & 37. 24. John 10. 11, 14, 16. Heb. 13. 20. ch. 5.4
CHAPTER III.

1 He teacheth the duty of wives and hus-
bands to each other, 8 exhorting all men
to unity and love, 14 and to suffer per-
secution. 19 He declareth also the bene-
fits of Christ toward the old world.

Eph. 5.
Col. 3. 18
Tit. 2. 5.

b 1 Cor. 7. 16
c Matt. 18. 15.
1 Cor. 9. 19
22.

LIKEWISE, & ye wives, be in sub: Ipers. 224
jection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word, bthey
also may without the word be won
by the conversation of the wives;
2 d While they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear.
3 Whose adorning, let it not bed
that outward adorning of plaiting
the hair, and of wearing of gold, or
of putting on of apparel;

ch. 2. 12
3.

• 1 Tim. 2. 9.

Rom. 2. 23. & 7.22. 2 Cor. 4. 16.

4 But let it be f the hidden man of Pa. 45. 13.
the heart, in that which is not cor-
ruptible, even the ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price.

5 For after this manner in the old
time the holy women also, who
trusted in God, adorned themselves,
being in subjection unto their own
husbands:

6 Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose † daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

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7 h Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, 1 Rom. 12 16. giving honour unto the wife, i as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; k that your prayers be not hindered. 8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; 19 For this is P thankworthy, if am love as brethren, "be pitiful, ben Eph. 4.32. man for conscience toward God en- courteous: 1 Rom. 12. 10. dure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take #! it patiently, this is acceptable with

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21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

22 Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth:

Or, thank,
Luke 6, 32,
ver. 20.
p Matt. 5. 10. 23 Who, when he was reviled, re-
Rom. 13. 5.
viled not again; when he suffered,
ch. 3. 11.
he threatened not; but || committed
q ch. 3. 14. &
4. 14, 15. Or, thank. Matt. 16. 24. Acta 11. 22. 1 Thess. 3. 3.
sch. 3. 18. Some read, for you. t John 13. 15.
Phil. 2. 5. 1 John 2. 6. u Is. 53. 9. Luke 23. 41. John 8. 46.

2 Tim. 3. 12.

9 "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

10 For The that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, "and his cars are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is tagainst them that do evil.

13 And who is he that will harm 2 Cor. 5. 21. Heb. 4. 15. x 1s. 63. 7. Matt. 27. 39. John 8. 49, you, if ye be followers of that which

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Col. 3. 12.

o Prov. 17. 13. & 20, 22. Matt. 5. 39. Rom. 12 14 17.

1 Cor. 4. 12. 1 Thess. 5.15.

p Matt. 25.34. P. 34, 12,

&c.

* James 1. 25. eh. 2. 1. 22. Rev. 14. 5. .P.. 37. 27. Is. 1. 16, 17. 3 John 11.

Rom. 12. 18

& 11. 19. Heb. 12 14.

John 9. 21.

James 5. 16

+ Gr. upon. Prov. 16. 7. Rom. 8. 28.

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h ch. 1. 12. & 4. 6.

i Is. 42.7.& 49. 9. & 61. 1.

Gen. 6. 3, 5,

13.

1 Heb. 11. 7.

m Gen. 7.7.&

8. 18.

2 Pet. 2. 5. n Eph. 5. 26. o Tit. 3. 5.

17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

18 For Christ also hath donce suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

19 By which also he went and h preached unto the spirits in pris

on;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, in wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not p Rom. 10. 10. the putting away of "the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; an1 Cor. 15. 24 gels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

q ch. 1. 3, r Ps. 110. 1. Rom. 8. 34. Eph. 1. 20. Col. 3. 1. Heb. 1. 3. Rom. 8. 38.

Eph. 1. 21.

ach. 3. 18.

b Rom. 6. 2,7. Gal. 5. 24. Col. 3. 3, 5. e Rom. 14, 7, ch, 2.1. d Gal. 2, 20.

ch. J. 14.

e John 1. 13. Rom. 6. 11. 2 Cor. 5. 15. James 1. 18. f Ea.44.6.&45. 9.

Acts 17. 30. g Eph. 2. 2. & 4. 17.

1 Thess. 4. 5.
Tit, 3.3.
ch. 1. 14.

h Acts 13. 45.
& 18. 6.
ch. 3. 16.

i Acts 10. 42. & 17. 31. Rom. 14. 10, 12.

1 Cor. 15, 51, 62.

2 Tim. 4. 1.

James 5. 9.

k ch. 3. 19.

CHAPTER IV.

1 He exhorteth them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approacheth: 12 and comforteth them against persecution. TORASMUCH then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for bhe that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

2 That he no longer d should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, h speaking evil of you:

5 Who shall give account to him that is ready i to judge the quick and

the dead.

ed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."

9 PUse hospitality one to another without grudging.

A. D. about 60.

1 Matt. 24.13, 14.

Rom. 13. 12. Phil, 4. 5. Heb. 10. 25. James 6. 8. 2 Pet. 3.9.11. 1 John 2. 18.

m Watt 26.41. Luke 21. 34. Col. 4. 2. ch. 1. 13. & & 2.

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same Col. 3. 14 one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

it

Heb. 16. 1.

o Prov 10 12. 1 Cor. 13. 7. James 5. 20.

Or, will. pRom. 12. 13. Heb. 13. 2.

11 "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified 2 Cor. 9. 7. through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Phil. 2. 14.
Philem. 11.

r Rom. 12. 6. 1 Cor. 4. 7.

& 25. 14, 21. Luke 12. 42. 1 Cor. 4. 1, 2. Tit. 1. 7.

12 Beloved, think it not strangeMatt. 24. 45. concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 5 But rejoice, inasmuch as yet1 Cor. 12. 4 are partakers of Christ's sufferings; d that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Eph. 4. 11.

u Jer. 23. 22. x Rom. 12. 6, 7. 8.

1 Cor. 3. 10.

cb. 2. 5.

14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for Eph. 5. 20. the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: fon their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, hor as a busybody in other men's matters.

16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, m what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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.

1

Es. 9. 6. Mal. 3. 5. 11. 31. Luke 23. 31.

a1 Tim. 6. 16. ch. 5. 11. Rev. 1. 6. al Cor. 3. 13. ch. 1.7.

b A eta 5. 41.
James 1. 2.

c Rom. . 17.
2 Cor. 1. 7. &
4. 10.
Phil. 3. 10.
Col. 1. 21.
2 Tim. 2. 12.
ch. . 1, 10.
Rev. 1. 9.

deh. 1. 5, 6. e Matt. 5. 11. Cor. 12. 10. James 1. 12. ch. 2. 19, 20. &2.14. fch. 2. 12. & 3.16 gch. 2. 20, h1Theus.4.11. 1 Tim. 5. 13.

i Acts 5. 41.
k Is. 10. 12.
Jer. 25, 29, &
49. 12.

1Luke 23. 31. m Luke 10. 12, 1. n Prov. o Ps. 31. 5. Luke 23. 46. 2 Tim. 1. 12. CHAPTER V.

He exhorteth the elders to feed their flocks, 5 the younger to obey, 8 and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith: 9to resist the cruel adversary Philem, 9. the devil.

HE elders which are among you

Texhort, who am also an elder, 6 For, for this cause kwas the and ba witness of the sufferings of gospel preached also to them that Christ, and also a partaker of the are dead, that they might be judg-glory that shall be revealed:

b Luke 24. 48. Acta 1. 8, 22, & 5.32. & 10. 39.

. Rom. 8. 17, 18.

Rev, 1. 9.

The apostle exhorteth

A. D. about 60.

d John 21. 15,
16. 17.
Acts 20. 28.
Or, as

II. PETER.

2 d Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; fnot for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

3 Neither as being lords over h God's heritage, but i being en1 Cor. 9. 17. samples to the lock.

much as in you is.

fl Tim.3.3,8.

Tit. 1. 7.

| Or, over

ruling.

g Ex. 31. 4.

Matt. 20. 25,

26.

1 Cor. 3. 9.

4 And when k the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive la crown of glory that fadeth not

away.

5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: P. 33 12. & for God resisteth the proud, and Pgiveth grace to the humble.

2 Cor. 1. 24.

71. 2.

i Phil. 3. 17.

2 Thess. 3. 9.

Tit. 2. 7.

Humble yourselves therefore 1 Tim. 4. 12. under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

k Heb. 13.20. 11 Cor. 9. 25. 2 Tim. 4. 8. James 1. 12.

8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because m ch. 1. 4. n Rom. 12.10. Eph. 5. 21. Phil. 2. 3. o James 4, 6. pla. 67. 15. & 60, 2. q James 4 10. r Ps. 37. 5. & 55. 22. Matt. 6. 25. Luke 12, 11, 22. Phil. 4. 6. Heb. 13. 5. Luke 21, 31, 36. 1 Thess. 5. 6. c. 4. 7.

to several duties.

your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, secking whom he may devour:

9" Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, bstablish, strengthen, settle you.

11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

12 d By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying fthat this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

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a Rom. 1. 12. QIMON Peter, a servant and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, to them 9 But he that lacketh these things
that have obtained like precious mis blind, and cannot see afar off,
faith with us through the righteous- and hath forgotten that he was
ness of God and our Saviour Jesus" purged from his old sins.
Christ:

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1 Thess. 3.12.
& 5. 15.
1 John 4.21.

+ Gr. idle.
1 John 15. 2.
Tis, 3. 14

m 1 John 2.9. 11.

n Eph. 5. 26. Heb. 9. 14. 1 John 1.7.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling 1 John 3.19.
and election sure: for if ye do these
things, Pye shall never fall:

11 For so an entrance shall be min-
istered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.

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12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14. Knowing that shortly I must

pch. 3. 17.

q Rom. 15,14
15.
Phil, 3. L
ch, 3, 1.
1 John 2. 21.
Jude 5.

rl Pet. 5. 12.
eh. 3. 17.

■ 2 Cor. 5. 1,4 tch. 3. 1.

u See Deut.L 21, 22 & 31. 14.

2 Tim. 4. 6.

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